Webb Schultz
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Wilbert Carl Schultz
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 5' 11", Weight 172 lb.
- School Ripon College, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
- Debut August 3, 1924
- Final Game August 3, 1924
- Born January 31, 1898 in Wautoma, WI USA
- Died July 26, 1986 in Delavan, WI USA
[edit] Biographical Information
Webb Schultz, who played one game in the majors, is the only major league player (through 2008) to come out of Ripon College and was the first major league player to come out of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
The Racquet, a university newspaper for La Crosse, noted in February 1920 that "Wilbert Schultz" of the PhysEd department had withdrawn from school to play baseball.
A Webb Schultz is listed as the basketball coach for Delavan High School in 1980.
The book Play by Play by Ronald Austin Smith states that Webb Schultz was Smith's gym teacher when Smith was a child in Delavan, and he later coached Smith in basketball and baseball.
