Cookie Lavagetto Baseball player

Harry Arthur "Cookie" Lavagetto (December 1, 1912 – August 10, 1990) was a third baseman, manager and coach in American Major League Baseball. He is most widely known as the pinch hitter whose double ruined Bill Bevens' no-hitter in Game 4 of the 1947 World Series and gave his Brooklyn Dodgers a breathtaking victory over the New York Yankees, a game known as The Cookie Game.

Personal facts

Cookie Lavagetto
Birth dateDecember 01, 1912
Date of deathAugust 10, 1990

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Baseball player

Career startApril 17, 1934
Career endSeptember 28, 1947
batting sideRight
former teams
Pittsburgh Pirates
History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
position
Third baseman
Second baseman
teams
Minnesota Twins
Pittsburgh Pirates
History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
throwing sideRight

Cookie Lavagetto on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://oaklandoaks.tripod.com/lavagetto.html
  2. http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/25moments/25.html
  3. http://www.thedeadballera.com/AudioPageLavagetto.html
  4. http://www.users.qwest.net/~yarnspnr/baseball/bevans/bevans.htm