Last Gas House Gang Member Dies
The last link to the Cardinals' "Gas House Gang" has died.
Don Gutteridge, who played 12 seasons in the majors including the 1936-1940 seasons for the Cardinals, died on Sunday in Pittsburg, Kan. He was 96.
Gutteridge spent more than 60 years in baseball as a player, coach, scout and managed the White Sox in 1969 and 1970. Sunday was the anniversary of the day he broke into the major leagues as he joined the Cardinals two years into the "Gas House Gang" era led by pitching brothers Dizzy and Paul Dean.
On his birthday June 19, he was the seventh oldest former major leaguer. A second baseman and third baseman in his career, he also played for the Browns from 1942-45 and then the Red Sox in 1946-47 before finishing his playing career in 1948 with the Pirates. He batted .256 with 39 home runs and 391 RBIs and was a member of pennant-winning clubs in 1944 with the Browns and 1946 with the Red Sox, teams that lost to the Cardinals in the World Series.
Gutteridge was 109-172 (.388) in his two seasons managing the White Sox and eventually retired from baseball in 1992. His hometown of Pittsburg, an old coal mining town in southeast Kansas, named its youth baseball and softball complex in his honor in the 1990s and its youth baseball association named its league for 13- to 15-year-olds in his name.
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Don Gutteridge, who played 12 seasons in the majors including the 1936-1940 seasons for the Cardinals, died on Sunday in Pittsburg, Kan. He was 96.
Gutteridge spent more than 60 years in baseball as a player, coach, scout and managed the White Sox in 1969 and 1970. Sunday was the anniversary of the day he broke into the major leagues as he joined the Cardinals two years into the "Gas House Gang" era led by pitching brothers Dizzy and Paul Dean.
On his birthday June 19, he was the seventh oldest former major leaguer. A second baseman and third baseman in his career, he also played for the Browns from 1942-45 and then the Red Sox in 1946-47 before finishing his playing career in 1948 with the Pirates. He batted .256 with 39 home runs and 391 RBIs and was a member of pennant-winning clubs in 1944 with the Browns and 1946 with the Red Sox, teams that lost to the Cardinals in the World Series.
Gutteridge was 109-172 (.388) in his two seasons managing the White Sox and eventually retired from baseball in 1992. His hometown of Pittsburg, an old coal mining town in southeast Kansas, named its youth baseball and softball complex in his honor in the 1990s and its youth baseball association named its league for 13- to 15-year-olds in his name.
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