finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1953 left 23 june 1967 new orleans , louisiana new orleans , louisiana 1950 september 27 .203 7 48 outfielder / first baseman new york giants batting average home runs runs batted in may 5 4 april 1929 tookie gilbert
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tookie gilbert

harold joseph `` tookie '' gilbert -lrb- april 4 , 1929 -- june 23 , 1967 -rrb- was an american first baseman who had two trials with the new york giants of major league baseball .
he was the son of former major league outfielder and longtime minor league manager larry gilbert , and the brother of charlie gilbert , also an outfielder .
tookie gilbert , born in new orleans , louisiana , threw right-handed and batted left-handed and stood tall and weighed during his playing career .
gilbert was a formidable slugger during his minor league career in the class aa southern association , where he played for the nashville vols , and led the american association in homers with 29 in 1951 while a member of the minneapolis millers , but as a major leaguer he batted only .203 in 183 games played and 482 at bats in appearances for the 1950 and 1953 giants .
he hit seven home runs and knocked home 48 runs batted in as a giant .
after his retirement from baseball , gilbert was elected civil sheriff of orleans parish , louisiana , in 1962 .
he died in new orleans of an apparent heart attack while at the wheel of his car at the age of 38 .
