Phil Gagliano

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Philip Joseph Gagliano (December 27, 1941 – December 19, 2016) was an American professional baseball player who forged a 12-season, 702-game career in Major League Baseball as a utility infielder/outfielder and pinch hitter for four clubs (principally the St. Louis Cardinals) between 1963 and 1974. He threw and batted right-handed, and was listed as 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and 180 pounds (82 kg). A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Gagliano came from a baseball family; he was the nephew of a prominent American Legion and high school coach, Tony Gagliano, and his younger brother Ralph also was an infielder in professional baseball who appeared in the majors, although only for one game in 1965. Phil graduated from Memphis' Christian Brothers High School, where he played for his uncle and was a teammate and schoolmate of Tim McCarver. Gagliano and McCarver, as fellow Cardinals from 1963 through 1969, became two of the four Christian Brothers High School baseball alumni to have played in the World Series as of 2017. Gagliano reached the majors for the first time after three full years in the St. Louis farm system; then he spent 31⁄2 months of the 1964 season on the Redbird roster as a

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