Talk:Charles Strobino
HELP. Anybody have any info on this guy? Couldn't find anything on SABR minor league page. His obit claims he was in the Dodgers farm system [1].
From the obit:
"Charles P. Strobino II, a rocket engineer and minor league baseball player, died March 13. He was 82.
Strobino played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers farm team early in his life, but he never made the majors. He attributed his lack of success to poor luck.
"He always felt that he had the stuff to make the majors but had the misfortune of being a first baseman, which was already taken by Gil Hodges, a Hall of Famer," his son Jamie said. "As he said, it didn't matter since he really was a Yankees fan anyway.""
69.68.238.142 09:29, 2 April 2009 (EDT)
It's possible he played under another name. I looked at the website for William Paterson University on the theory that he was a college baseball star but I didn't find anything on him. Of course, it was a long time ago and who knows if records were kept. Given that he died at age 82, he would have been born around 1927, and so he would have been 18 in 1945 - therefore he would have played for the farm team sometime in the middle to late forties, depending on whether he did so before, during or after college. In addition, the odds are that a boy from the Northeast would have been assigned to a team in the Northeast, such as, perhaps, the 1946 Nashua Dodgers, a team that was managed by Walter Alston and featured Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe. So there are a limited number of teams to check, unless he played under another name. - Randy 13:19, 3 April 2009 (EDT)
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