finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1944 right 25 june 2002 catasauqua , pennsylvania hokendauqua , pennsylvania 1944 september 26 .333 2 0 catcher philadelphia phillies batting average hits runs batted in september 20 11 april 1916 joe antolick
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joe antolick

joseph antolick -lrb- april 11 , 1916 -- june 25 , 2002 -rrb- was an american professional baseball player and manager .
the catcher appeared in four major league games for the philadelphia phillies in as a 28-year-old rookie .
antolick , a native of hokendauqua , pennsylvania , threw and batted right-handed .
he stood tall and weighed .
antolick is one of many ballplayers who only appeared in the majors during world war ii .
his pro career began in 1938 and extended through 1951 , but the highest minor league level he reached was class a -lrb- roughly equivalent to double-a today -rrb- with the utica blue sox of the eastern league in 1945 .
a season earlier , he was recalled by the phillies after the 1944 minor league season -- which he spent with the class b wilmington blue rocks -- for his big-league debut on september 20 , 1944 , in a home game against the cincinnati reds at shibe park .
facing ace right-hander bucky walters as a pinch hitter , he grounded out , walters to first baseman frank mccormick .
five days later , he started his only mlb game at catcher and collected his first hit , a single off the chicago cubs ' charlie gassaway .
then , the following day , he relieved starting catcher johnny peacock and singled in his only at bat off hank wyse , one of only four phillies ' hits in a 15 -- 0 loss .
in four games he was 2-for-6 -lrb- .333 -rrb- with a walk and one run scored .
in his three appearances as a catcher he handled 10 chances without making an error and participated in one double play .
from 1946 -- 1951 , antolick was a player-manager in the low minors .
he died at the age of 86 in catasauqua , pennsylvania .
