American baseball player (1927-1993)
Baseball player
Bill Antonello Outfielder Born: (1927-05-19 ) May 19, 1927Brooklyn, New York , U.S.[ 1] [ 2] Died: March 4, 1993(1993-03-04) (aged 65)Fridley, Minnesota , U.S.Batted: Right
Threw: Right
April 30, 1953, for the Brooklyn Dodgers September 27, 1953, for the Brooklyn Dodgers Batting average .163 Home runs 1 Runs batted in 4 Stats at Baseball Reference
William James Antonello (May 19, 1927 – March 4, 1993) was an American professional baseball player whose 12-season career included 40 games in Major League Baseball as an outfielder , pinch hitter and pinch runner for the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers . The Brooklyn [ 1] [ 2]
Antonello attended Fort Hamilton High School and served in the United States Navy as a 17-year-old during World War II .[ 3] farm system before his promotion to the 1953 edition . In his long big-league campaign, he started nine games, five of them in left field , scored nine runs , and collected seven hits and two bases on balls in 45 plate appearances . Those seven hits included one home run , hit off Ken Raffensberger of the Cincinnati Redlegs at Crosley Field on May 17.[ 4] batted .163 with four runs batted in .
That year, Brooklyn captured 105 regular-season games and the National League pennant , but Antonello did not appear in the 1953 World Series , won by the New York Yankees in six games. He played professionally through the 1957 minor-league season.
Antonello settled in his wife's hometown of Saint Paul, Minnesota , where he had played Triple-A baseball during the early 1950s, and died in Fridley, Minnesota , at age 65 in 1993.[ 3]
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