finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1949 both 28 december 1993 fairfield , california berkeley , california 1934 september 26 .287 100 830 outfielder philadelphia athletics batting average home runs runs batted in april 29 23 may 1912 augiegalan1948bowman.jpg augie galan
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augie galan

august john galan -lrb- may 23 , 1912 -- december 28 , 1993 -rrb- was an american professional baseball player .
a left fielder and center fielder , he played in the major leagues from 1934 -- 49 for the chicago cubs -lrb- 1934 -- 41 -rrb- , brooklyn dodgers -lrb- 1941 -- 46 -rrb- , cincinnati reds -lrb- 1947 -- 48 -rrb- , new york giants -lrb- 1949 -rrb- and philadelphia athletics -lrb- 1949 -rrb- .
galan threw right-handed and began his career as a switch hitter , but , starting in the latter part of , he became strictly a left-handed hitter until the end of his career .
born in berkeley , california , galan stood tall and weighed .
in a 16-season big-league career , galan posted a .287 batting average with 1,706 hits , 100 home runs and 830 run batted in in 1,742 games played .
in 1937 , galan was the first player in the majors to hit switch-hit home runs in a game .
galan was selected to three national league all-star teams and homered in the 1936 contest off schoolboy rowe to help power the senior circuit to a 4 -- 3 victory .
he also played in three world series -lrb- 1935 and 1938 with the cubs , and 1941 with the dodgers -rrb- , but his teams never won .
galan collected four fall classic hits in 29 total at bats -lrb- .138 -rrb- .
in 1935 , he became the first full-time player to make 649 plate appearances and not hit into a double play , though he did hit into a triple play.often injured -lrb- he broke his knee in 1940 -rrb- , alan had a deformed arm from a childhood injury .
a knee injury forced him to give up batting from the right side of the plate .
after leaving the major leagues in 1949 , galan returned to the san francisco bay area and played two more seasons with the oakland oaks of the pacific coast league , then managed the club to a 77 -- 103 record -lrb- seventh place -rrb- in 1953 .
he joined the philadelphia athletics ' coaching staff in , their last year in that city , and went on to spend 17 years as a minor league coach and manager in the athletics ' organization .
augie galan died in fairfield , california , at 81 years of age .
