Sam West, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player and coach
Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1904
Place of Birth: Longview, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 23-Nov-1985
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Sam West
- Samuel Filmore West (October 5, 1904 – November 23, 1985) was a center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for three different teams from 1927 to 1942.
- Listed at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 165 lb., West batted and threw left-handed.
- He was born in Longview, Texas. West entered the majors in 1927 with the Washington Senators, playing six years for them before moving to the St.
- Louis Browns (1933–1938), again with Washington (1938–1941), and the Chicago White Sox (1942).
- His most productive season came in 1931 when he posted a career-high .333 batting average and reached career highs in slugging percentage (.481), hits (175), doubles (43), triples (13), and rbi (91).
- In 1933, he was selected to the first All-Star Game ever played, being selected again in 1934, 1935 and 1937. During his career, West collected a .300 average during eight seasons; led AL outfielders in putouts twice, double plays three times, and assists once, and four times was considered in the AL Most Valuable Player vote.
- Although he played with Washington during ten seasons, he missed the American League pennant-winning team that lost the 1933 World Series to the New York Giants after being traded to the Browns in exchange for Goose Goslin.
- In a sixteen-season career, West was a .299 hitter (1838-for-6148) with 75 home runs and 838 RBI in 1753 games, including 934 runs, 347 doubles, 101 triples, 53 stolen bases, a .371 on-base percentage, and a .425 slugging percentage. Defensively, he posted a .983 fielding percentage.
- Following his playing career, West served in the U.S.
- Army during World War II.
- After discharge from the service, he spent three years as a coach with the Senators. “The art of converting base hits into putouts as exemplified by Sam West, knows no equal among major league outfielders and has had no peers since Tris Speaker’s glory days, on the authority of Washington club President, Clark Griffith, who will tell you that he has spent forty-two years in baseball, and he ought to know.” — The Washington Post West died in Lubbock, Texas at age 81.
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