finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1943 right 13 september 2003 arlington , texas moss creek , pennsylvania 1939 september 27 .250 4 74 outfielder philadelphia athletics batting average home runs runs batted in may 2 27 may 1914 johnny welaj
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johnny welaj

john ludwig welaj -lrb- may 27 , 1914 -- september 13 , 2003 -rrb- was an american major league baseball outfielder .
he played four seasons in the majors , between and , for the washington senators and philadelphia athletics .
welaj also had an extensive minor league career , spanning 21 seasons from until .
in , he served as manager of the hagerstown packets in the senators ' organization .
he was a player-manager of the erie senators in 1956 , then returned to full-time managing with the midland/lamesa indians in .
after 1957 , welaj continued to work as a major league executive for the senators and texas rangers .
from 1973 until 1984 , he served as director of stadium operations for the rangers , after which he retired as a full-time employee .
he continued to serve as the rangers ' spring training director until 1999 .
welaj died in 2003 at the age of 89 .
