George Lerchen
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George Edward Lerchen
- Bats Both, Throws Right
- Height 5' 11", Weight 175 lb.
- Debut April 15, 1952
- Final Game September 13, 1953
- Born December 1, 1922 in Detroit, MI USA
[edit] Biographical Information
George Lerchen was an outfielder for 12 years (1942-1956), two in the Major Leagues (1952-1953) and 12 in the minors (1941-1942;1946-1956), losing three years to the military. He served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II (1943-1945) (GB). Lerchen was born on Friday, 1 December 1922, in Detroit, MI. He was signed by Wish Egan of the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1942. He was 29 years old when he broke into the big leagues on 15 April 1952, with the Tigers. He had cups of coffee with the Tigers (1952) and the Cincinnati Redlegs (1953) and hit 118 homeruns in the minors. He celebrated his 83rd birthday in 2005.
[edit] Sources
Principal sources for George Lerchen 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.
