Lloyd Merriman

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Lloyd Archer Merriman (August 2, 1924 – January 20, 2004) was an American athlete who played professional baseball as an outfielder in the Major Leagues from 1949 to 1955 for the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs and college baseball and football at Stanford University. Merriman was born in Clovis, California and postponed college to serve as a United States naval aviator during World War II.He finished flight school shortly before the Japanese surrendered. At Stanford he was a two sport star, playing both fullback for the football team and outfielder for the baseball team. He was good enough at football to be drafted by the Bears in the fifth round of the 1947 NFL draft (32nd overall) but declined to play football, choosing instead to focus on baseball. As a baseball player, Merriman threw and batted left-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg). Because of his wartime service, he was nearly 24 when he was signed by Cincinnati in 1948. He had one year of minor league experience, with the 1948 Columbia Reds of the Class A Sally League, and batted .298 before becoming a member of the Major League Reds in 1949. He was the Reds' regular cente

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