Carden Gillenwater, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 13-May-1918
Place of Birth: Riceville, Tennessee, United States
Date of Death: 10-May-2000
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Carden Gillenwater
- Carden Edison Gillenwater (May 13, 1918 – May 10, 2000) was an Major League Baseball center fielder.
- A native of Riceville, Tennessee, he played for the St.
- Louis Cardinals (1940), Brooklyn Dodgers (1943), Boston Braves (1945–1946) and Washington Senators (1948). Gillenwater made his major league debut on September 22, 1940 with the St.
- Louis Cardinals.
- He played seven games that season, hitting .160 for the Cardinals.
- After two years in the minor leagues, he played in eight games for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943.Gillenwater's best season was 1945, when he was a regular center fielder for the Braves, appearing in 144 games.
- He hit .288 (149-for-517) with 7 home runs, 72 runs batted in, and 74 runs scored, and led National League outfielders with 451 putouts and 24 assists.
- He also ranked in the league's top ten for bases on balls, on-base percentage, and stolen bases.
- Gillenwater tied a major league outfield record with 12 putouts in a game in 1946. He was a part-time player in 1946 and 1948, appearing in a total of 176 games and batting .236.
- On September 27, 1948 he was traded by the Washington Senators to the Cincinnati Reds for outfielder Clyde Vollmer, and never again played in a major league game. In a total of 335 games he was 261-for-1004 (.260), and 153 walks and three hit by pitches pushed his on-base percentage up to .359.
- He had 11 HR, 114 RBI, scored 129 runs, and had a slugging percentage of .348.
- In the outfield he handled 869 out of 888 chances successfully for a .979 fielding percentage. Gillenwater died at the age of 81 in Largo, Florida, only 3 days before his 82nd birthday.
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