Charlie Shoemaker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1939
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Death: 31-May-1990
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Charlie Shoemaker
- Charles Landis Shoemaker (August 10, 1939 – May 31, 1990) was an American professional baseball player.
- A native of Los Angeles, he appeared as a second baseman in parts of three Major League Baseball seasons (1961–1962; 1964) for the Kansas City Athletics.
- He batted left-handed, threw right-handed, stood 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighed 155 pounds (70 kg). Shoemaker attended high school in Montebello, California, where he was a top athlete, and then the University of Arizona.
- He led Arizona to second place at the College World Series in 1959 and third in 1960.
- He was a three time All-American.
- In 1961, he attained the rare distinction of earning All-American honors at two different positions (shortstop and second base).
- Over his college career, he led the Wildcats in at bats, hits, triples and stolen bases.
- He was named to the 1950s All-Decade Team and inducted to the University of Arizona Hall of Fame in 1991.
- At the time of his induction, he still held the team record for triples in a season (12) and in a career (31) and was fifth in strike-out/at-bat ratio for a season, having struck out only six times in 1961.
- Upon graduation, his coach, Frank Sancet, called him the best college infielder he had ever seen.Shoemaker signed with the Athletics in 1961.
- After batting .271 in 82 games played for the Class A Portsmouth-Norfolk Tides of the Sally League, he was recalled by the A's that September.
- He started in six games at second and pinch hit in a seventh, and had four multi-hit games.
- In his Major League debut, Shoemaker collected ten hits in 28 at bats, including two doubles, for a .385 average.
- However, in his next two MLB trials — in 1962 and 1964 — he batted .206 (13 for 63), and the final seven years of his career (1965–1971) were spent exclusively in minor league baseball. Charlie Shoemaker died in Mount Penn, Pennsylvania, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 50 on May 31, 1990.
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