Don Lang
From BR Bullpen
Donald Charles Lang
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 0", Weight 175 lb.
- School Long Beach Junior College
[edit] Biographical Information
Don Lang was a third baseman 12 seasons 1936 to 1950, two in the Major Leagues ten years apart and 11 in the minors (9 in AAA), losing three years to the Military. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps 7th Army Air Force during World War II (1943-1945) (GB) while property of the Boston Red Sox. He played 21 games for the Cincinnati Reds in 1938 and was the regular third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals most of 1948 due to a career-ending injury to Whitey Kurowski. He married Mary Gorrindo 19490203.
[edit] Sources
Principal sources for Don Lang include newspaper obituaries (OB), government Veteran records (VA,CM,CW), Stars & Stripes (S&S), Sporting Life (SL), The Sporting News (TSN), The Sports Encyclopedia:Baseball 2006 by David Neft & Richard Cohen (N&C), old Who's Who in Baseballs {{{WW}}} (WW), old Baseball Registers {{{BR}}} (BR) , old Daguerreotypes by TSN {{{DAG}}} (DAG), Stars&Stripes (S&S), The Baseball Necrology by Bill Lee (BN), Pat Doyle's Professional Ballplayer DataBase (PD), The Baseball Library (BL), Baseball in World War II Europe by Gary Bedingfield (GB) {{{MORE}}} and independent research by Walter Kephart (WK) and Frank Russo (FR) and others.
