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Morrie (Morris) Arnovich, known as Snooker, (November 16, 1910 – July 20, 1959) was a stocky Major League Baseball outfielder. He was a line drive hitter and he played seven seasons for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants between , and , and again for one game in . One of the most religious Jewish major leaguers, Arnovich kept kosher his whole life.〔 Arnovich was a two-time All-Wisconsin basketball star at the University of Wisconsin–Superior. ==Baseball career== Arnovich's professional baseball career began at age 22 with the Superior Blues, the champions of the newly revived Northern League in .〔 A shortstop that year, he hit .331 and slugged .495 with 17 steals. He was fifth in average and fourth in homers, with 14. His .918 fielding was best of any shortstop with 50 or more games that season, and he made the unofficial All-Star team listed by the ''Spalding Guide''. Returning to Superior in , Arnovich hit .374 to take the Northern League batting title, and his 21 homers tied for fifth. He hit three homers in one game that year. The Philadelphia Phillies purchased his contract in , and assigned him to the Hazleton Mountaineers of the New York–Pennsylvania League. He hit .305 that year. In , he hit .327 with 19 homers and 109 RBIs. He tied for the league lead in homers and was one RBI off of the top pace. He got a cup of coffee with the Phils that season and hit .313 in late-season action. By this time Arnovich had moved to the outfield, and he would not play any other position in the Major Leagues. He primarily played left field. In , he hit .290 and had a career-high five double plays from the outfield. In , he had a career-high 18 outfield assists, third of all outfielders in the league. He was referred to as the "Son of Israel", or the "Next Jewish Star". When Phil Weintraub entered the armed forces, Arnovich took his spot in the lineup. In he was the top contact hitter in the National League most of the season before fading late and still finishing fifth in the league with a .324 batting average.〔 He was 6th in OBP (.398), made the NL All-Star team in his best season. He came in 18th in MVP voting. At the age of 29, Arnovich was traded to the Cincinnati Reds for Johnny Rizzo in June and had a disappointing season, though he continued to hit for solid contact (.284); he failed to homer and his lack of power was not good for an outfielder. He made his only World Series appearance that season. He was sold to the New York Giants in December , and had a .280 batting average in 85 games. Arnovich tried to volunteer for the United States Army, but was turned down because he was missing a pair of molars. He got false teeth and volunteered again after Pearl Harbor this time he was permitted in and spent the next four years in the Army. While in the Army, Arnovich played for and managed the Fort Lewis baseball team, before becoming a postal clerk in New Guinea.〔 Out of condition and now 35 years old, Morrie played in one game for the New York Giants in and was sent down to the Jersey City Giants, where he went 5 for 25 in 10 games before being released in June 1946. In Arnovich hit in the .370s in the Three-I League and Western Association, then batted .353 in limited time in the Southeastern League before retiring at the age of 37. Through 2010, he was ninth all-time in career batting average (ahead of Shawn Green) among Jewish major league baseball players. 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「Morrie Arnovich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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