Snuffy Stirnweiss (Baseball. Born, New York, NY, Oct. 26, 1919; died, Newark Bay, NJ, Sept. 15, 1958.) Even though he hit .264 and .270 in his two full seasons at Newark of the International League, George Henry Stirnweiss wasn’t draft-eligible. Stirnweiss thus became the Yankees’ regular second baseman during World War II. Against that watered-down competition, […]
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