Dick Conger

Richard Conger

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 185 lb.
• School University of California, Los Angeles
• High School John C. Fremont High School
• Debut April 22, 1940
• Final Game September 14, 1943
• Born April 3, 1921 in Los Angeles, CA USA
• Died February 16, 1970 in Los Angeles, CA USA

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Biographical Information

After a year at UCLA, Dick Conger signed with the Detroit Tigers in 1940 and immediately arrived in the bigs. He won in his debut, on April 22, with three innings of relief against the Chicago White Sox. He was then demoted to the minors, where he went 8-10 with a 4.28 ERA for the Beaumont Exporters. The Pittsburgh Pirates took him in the 1940 Rule V Draft. He pitched four scoreless innings for the Bucs in 1941 but spent the year with the Albany Senators (6-9, 3.34) and the Portland Beavers (0-3). In 1942, Conger had a 2.16 ERA in two games for Pittsburgh and went 6-3, 3.39 for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Conger's best minor league season was 1943 when he had a 11-6, 1.96 year for Toronto, finishing second to Lou Polli in the International League in ERA. Traded to the Philadelphia Phillies, Dick went 2-7 with a 6.09 ERA in his longest look at the majors. Overall, he was 3-7 with a 5.14 ERA in the bigs. Conger pitched for the Los Angeles Angels in 1944, going 13-7 with a 2.88 ERA. He entered the military that year and served in World War II, returning in 1946 to finish 7-8, 3.88 for LA. He was 2-0 for the 1947 Angels and spent most of the year with the Nashville Volunteers, going 7-5, 5.26. In 1948, he had a 11-9, 4.47 line for Nashville. '49 found him back in the PCL with the Sacramento Solons, where his pitching line read 5-3, 3.01. He finished his career in 1950 by going 0-1, 9.00 for Sacramento and 0-4, 4.16 for the Oklahoma City Indians. In the minors, he was was 76-68.

After his baseball career ended, he scouted for the Dodgers and was a foreman in the stereotype department of the Los Angeles Times.

Sources: The International League: Year-by-Year Statistics by Marshall Wright, The Big Book of Jewish Baseball by Peter Horvitz and Joachim Horvitz, Pat Doyle's Professional Baseball Player Database