[JLange]

RIP Vic Davalillo, who passed away this week in Caracas, Venezuela. His MLB career included stints with CLE, CAL, STL, PIT, OAK, and LAD. He was a member of two WS winning squads, with the Pirates in 1971 and A’s in 1973. I just learned that across all of his years of professional baseball, including MLB, Minors, Venezuelan Winter League, and Mexican League Baseball, Davalillo amassed over 4,100 professional base hits. That puts him in rarified company, with Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, Ichiro Suzuki, Hank Aaron, Jigger Statz, Julio Franco, Minnie Minoso, Derek Jeter, and Stan Musial, in the 4,000 professional hits club. If anyone knows of others in this club, please share.

Here’s Vic Davalillo in a 5”x7” Publicity Photo with Cleveland in his rookie season, 1963.


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