Bob Ramazzotti

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Robert Louis Ramazzotti (January 16, 1917 – February 15, 2000) was an American professional baseball player who appeared in 346 Major League Baseball games between 1946 and 1953 as an infielder and pinch hitter for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Chicago Cubs. He was born in Eleanora, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Altoona. Ramazzotti threw and batted right-handed and was listed as 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) tall and 175 pounds (79 kg). He was 23 years old when he entered Organized Baseball in the Brooklyn organization in 1940; then, after two minor league seasons and the outbreak of World War II, he joined the United States Army. Attaining the rank of staff sergeant, he was stationed in Europe as a member of the 71st Infantry Division. Ramazzotti missed four full baseball seasons, 1942 through 1945, due to his wartime service. In 1946, he returned to baseball and spent the entire campaign on the Dodgers' MLB roster, playing in 62 games as a utility infielder for a Brooklyn team that finished in a dead heat for the National League pennant before falling to the eventual World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals in a tie-breaker series. Ramazzotti batted .208 in 133 plate appearances in his roo

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