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- Bill_Salkeld abstract "William Franklin Salkeld (March 8, 1917 – April 22, 1967) was an American professional baseball player, a catcher in the Major Leagues from 1945–1950 for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Braves and Chicago White Sox. A native of Pocatello, Idaho, who grew up in Sacramento, California, Salkeld batted left-handed, threw right-handed, stood 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg).Salkeld's professional career was almost ended at the age of 19 by a serious knee injury that caused him to miss 2½ seasons. He was able to return to baseball as the 22-year-old player-manager of the 1939 Tucson Cowboys of the Class D Arizona–Texas League. He then spent 1940–1944 in the top-level Pacific Coast League before his Major League debut, at age 28, with the 1945 Pirates during the final year of the World War II manpower shortage. As a rookie, Salkeld batted .311 with 15 home runs in only 317 plate appearances and finished 24th in the National League Most Valuable Player voting. Although his productivity declined during the postwar period as ex-Major Leaguers returned to the game from military service, Salkeld kept his Major League foothold for most of the next four seasons.Traded to the Boston Braves after the 1947 campaign, Salkeld platooned with right-handed hitter Phil Masi in 1948 as the Braves stormed to their first National League championship in 34 years. Salkeld then appeared in five games of the 1948 World Series against the Cleveland Indians. In 15 plate appearances, he collected two hits and five bases on balls plus one sacrifice hit for an on-base percentage of .500. Salkeld's solo home run off future Hall of Famer Bob Feller in the sixth inning of Game 5 tied the contest at five; the following inning, Boston scored six runs to salt away an 11–5 victory (although Cleveland prevailed in the Series, four games to two).After leaving baseball after the 1953 minor league season, Salkeld settled in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. He died from cancer at the age of 50 in 1967. Four years later, his grandson Roger was born in Burbank, California. Roger Salkeld would be chosen by the Seattle Mariners in the first round of the 1989 Major League Baseball Draft, and appear in 45 MLB games as a right-handed pitcher for the Mariners and Cincinnati Reds during the mid-1990s.".
- Bill_Salkeld birthDate "1917-03-08".
- Bill_Salkeld birthPlace Pocatello,_Idaho.
- Bill_Salkeld birthYear "1917".
- Bill_Salkeld deathDate "1967-04-22".
- Bill_Salkeld deathPlace Los_Angeles.
- Bill_Salkeld deathYear "1967".
- Bill_Salkeld debutTeam Pittsburgh_Pirates.
- Bill_Salkeld position Catcher.
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- Bill_Salkeld wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sacramento_Solons_players.
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- Bill_Salkeld wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sportspeople_from_Pocatello,_Idaho.
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- Bill_Salkeld wikiPageWikiLink Sacramento,_California.
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- Bill_Salkeld wikiPageWikiLink San_Fernando_Valley.
- Bill_Salkeld wikiPageWikiLink Seattle_Mariners.
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- Bill_Salkeld wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bill Salkeld".
- Bill_Salkeld bats "Left".
- Bill_Salkeld birthDate "1917-03-08".
- Bill_Salkeld birthPlace Pocatello,_Idaho.
- Bill_Salkeld dateOfBirth "1917-03-08".
- Bill_Salkeld dateOfDeath "1967-04-22".
- Bill_Salkeld deathDate "1967-04-22".
- Bill_Salkeld deathPlace Los_Angeles.
- Bill_Salkeld debutdate "--04-18".
- Bill_Salkeld debutleague "MLB".
- Bill_Salkeld debutteam Pittsburgh_Pirates.
- Bill_Salkeld debutyear "1945".
- Bill_Salkeld finaldate "--04-21".
- Bill_Salkeld finalleague "MLB".
- Bill_Salkeld finalteam Chicago_White_Sox.
- Bill_Salkeld finalyear "1950".
- Bill_Salkeld name "Bill Salkeld".
- Bill_Salkeld name "Salkeld, Bill".
- Bill_Salkeld placeOfBirth "Pocatello, Idaho".
- Bill_Salkeld placeOfDeath "Los Angeles, California".
- Bill_Salkeld position Catcher.
- Bill_Salkeld shortDescription "American baseball player".
- Bill_Salkeld stat1label Batting_average.
- Bill_Salkeld stat1value "0.273".
- Bill_Salkeld stat2label "Home runs".