| Birth: | Apr. 4, 1924 | | Death: | Apr. 2, 1972 | 
Major League Baseball Player. Played first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the late 1940s and 1950s. A right handed first baseman, he is credited with implementing the "in the vicinity play," the tactic in which a player runs off the base while catching the ball so as to give the appearance of completing the out. After his retirement as a player he became field manager of the New York Mets and led them to their first World Championship, beating the Baltimore Orioles in the 1969 Series. He died during Spring Training prior to the 1972 Baseball Season.
Cause of death: Heart Attack
Search Amazon for Gil Hodges | | | Burial:
Holy Cross Cemetery
Brooklyn
Kings County
New York, USA
Plot: St. Cathrine Section, Range B, Lot 191/193 |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 487 |
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Happy 89th birthday!
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Talbot Fisher
Added: Apr. 5, 2013 |
Gil,You are and always will be the best field manager in New York Baseball history, thanks for being a great baseball player, I treasure your baseball card that I have of yours, I found out you are buried my grandparents so some day I will say hello to yo...(Read more)
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MFPS
Added: Apr. 4, 2013 |
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czgrammy
Added: Apr. 4, 2013 |
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