Sam Chapman Baseball player

Samuel Blake Chapman (April 11, 1916 – December 22, 2006) was an American two-sport athletic star who played as a center fielder in Major League Baseball, spending nearly his entire career with the Philadelphia Athletics (1938–1941, 1945–1951). He batted and threw right-handed, leading the American League in putouts four times. He was previously an All-American college football player at the University of California.

Personal facts

Sam Chapman
Birth dateApril 11, 1916
Date of deathDecember 22, 2006

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Baseball player

Career startMay 16, 1938
Career endSeptember 22, 1951
batting sideRight
former teams
Cleveland Indians
Oakland Athletics
position
Center fielder
teams
Cleveland Indians
Oakland Athletics
throwing sideRight

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Sam Chapman on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://marinij.com/marin/ci_4903281
  2. http://philadelphiaathletics.org/event/chapman.html
  3. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Chapman_Sam.stm
  4. http://www.bashof.org/inducteebios/schapman.htm
  5. http://www.footballfoundation.org/Programs/CollegeFootballHallofFame/SearchDetail.aspx?id=30094
  6. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-chapman29dec29,1,5515583.story?track=rss
  7. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/30/SPGFRNAGQV1.DTL&feed=rss.sports