Sonny Dixon (baseball)

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John Craig "Sonny" Dixon (November 5, 1924 – November 19, 2011) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for four seasons with the Washington Senators (1953–1954), Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics (1954–1955) and New York Yankees (1956). A right-hander, the switch-hitting Dixon threw stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and weighed 205 pounds (93 kg). Signed by the Senators prior to the 1941 season, Dixon served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II and missed three years (1943–1945) of his baseball career. He resumed pitching in 1946 and won 19 games for the Class B Charlotte Hornets. But it would take nine minor league seasons, and another 19-win campaign (in 1952 for the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts), to propel Dixon to the Major Leagues. He worked in 43 games, with six starts, for Washington during his rookie 1953 season, and lost eight of 13 decisions, although he registered consecutive complete game victories against the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Browns on May 30 and June 4. On June 11, 1954, he was traded by Senators to the Chicago White Sox for fellow pitcher Gus Keriazakos, an

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