Vince Castino

Vincent Charles Castino

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 9", Weight 175 lb.
• High School Crane Tech High School
• Debut June 24, 1943
• Final Game September 25, 1945
• Born October 11, 1917 in Willisville, IL USA
• Died March 6, 1967 in Sacramento, CA USA

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Biographical Information

Catcher Vince Castino spent sixteen seasons in professional baseball from 1936 to 1951. He had eight years of experience in the minors when he debuted with the Chicago White Sox on June 24, 1943. Vince spent the rest of the year with the White Sox and was the team's backup receiver for the 1944 and 1945 seasons. During his time with the Comiskey Park club, Vince appeared in 88 games with 215 at bats, hitting .228 in his only big league experience.

Before his time in the bigs, Vince probably had his best season in 1942, splitting a year with the Lubbock Hubbers of the Class D West Texas-New Mexico League and the Norfolk Tars of the Class B Piedmont League. Vince played 104 games and hit .340. This was somewhat of an illusion, as his impressive numbers came in the West Texas-New Mexico League, a high-offense circuit, while he had much more pedestrian stats with Norfolk. After his years in the majors, Vince spent six more seasons in the minors, catching mostly in AAA to A ball. In 1950, he was with the Amarillo Gold Sox, Little Rock Travelers and the PCL Sacramento Solons, hitting .286 in 80 games. In the minors, Vince appeared in 1,046 contests with four years in AAA, four in AA, three in A, four in B, three in C and six in D. This gave him an incomplete, but closely estimated, .272 career average (898-for-3,296) in the minors.

Castino left baseball after the 1951 season and worked for 13 years as a district circulation manager for the Sacramento Bee newspaper. He died at 49 after a lingering bout with lung cancer on March 6, 1967 in Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento, CA.

Related Sites

• Vince Castino at the SABR Bio Project
• BR Minors page