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Warren Sandel
Warren Sandel was an American baseball player from 1938 to 1952. Most of his playing time was spent at the minor league level. A pitcher, Sandel is best remembered for giving up the first base hit to Jackie Robinson who broke professional baseball's color barrier in 1946 while playing under a minor league contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers.〔Weintraub, Robert (2013) ''The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age''. New York: Little, Brown & Company. ISBN 978-0-316-20591-7.〕
==Professional career==
Sandel signed a professional contract with the St. Louis Cardinals while he was in high school. He subsequently entered the minor leagues in 1938 as pitcher for the Albuquerque Cardinals, which at the time was a member of the Class D Arizona–Texas League.〔Van Blair, Rick (1994) ''Dugout to Foxhole: Interviews with Baseball Players Whose Careers Were Affected by World War II.'' Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, pages 180-191〕 Sandel enjoyed success in his early years. In 1942 he was offered a contract by the Sacramento Solons of the AAA Pacific Coast League. Despite being offered a contract that paid him $350 a month, the most he had ever made, and being given a chance to play just one step below the major league level, Sandel was unable to pitch for Sacramento because like many other ball players of his era, his career was interrupted by World War II. Instead of pitching professionally, Sandel served in the Coast Guard from 1943–1945. For Sandel, the time was not wasted because the Coast Guard placed him on its San Diego baseball team where he not only continued pitching but, with the help of fellow players and coaches, finally mastered the curveball.〔
After his release from military service, Sandel returned to professional baseball and was invited to the New York Giants' 1946 spring training camp. Sandel soon found himself at odds with Mel Ott the Giant's manager, primarily because of Sandel's failure to work hard and take the game seriously.〔
''"I always wanted to have fun and was pretty much a comedian when I pitched. I did a lot of crazy things. One time I went up to bat without a bat ... I always wanted to have fun playing baseball () that got me into trouble with Mel Ott ... I knew I wasn't going to last long with him. () Ott came out to the mound and said "When are you going to get serious? When I sent you out here I wanted you to work." I told him the only way I would work (with ) a rake and a shovel () I came out here to play ... I was in the minor leagues soon after that."〔 – Interview with Rick Van Blair''
Sandel spent the remainder of the 1946 season playing for the minor league Jersey City Giants. After the season was completed, he returned to California to play for the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League, which played a longer schedule than other baseball leagues. In 1947, Sandel was promoted to the major leagues and spent the next two seasons as relief pitcher for the New York Giants. Because relief pitchers were not used regularly in games back in the 1940s, Sandel was often rotated back to the Jersey City team during the season to keep his arm in shape.〔
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