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Charles Klein Stobbs (July 2, 1929 – July 11, 2008) was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (1947–51), Chicago White Sox (1952), Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins (1953–58 and 1959–61) and St. Louis Cardinals (1958). He led the American League in walks per nine innings pitched (2.03) in 1956 and led the American League in losses (20) and earned runs allowed (126) in . Stobbs is best remembered as the pitcher who gave up an estimated 565 feet home run to Mickey Mantle that flew entirely out of Griffith Stadium in 1953. ==Early life== Stobbs, a native of West Virginia, spent his early years in Springfield, Ohio and Vero Beach, Florida. His father, Bill Stobbs, played professional football in 1921. As a teenager his family moved to Norfolk, Virginia, where his father took a coaching job at Granby High School.〔 In high school, Stobbs excelled in three sports: football, basketball and baseball. He led the Granby High School football team to three consecutive state championships and was named all-state quarterback three times.〔 Stobbs was also an all-American in baseball and a two-time all-state basketball player.〔 In 1947, Stobbs was named by the Washington Post as one of the "greatest athletes to be developed in the Virginia high schools during recent years".〔 In 1957, Washington Post sports columnist Bob Addie wrote that Stobbs was "one of the greatest athletes ever to come out of Virginia."〔 For his storied high-school career, Stobbs was later named to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chuck Stobbs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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