Walt Bashore

Walter Franklin Bashore
born Walter Franklin Beshore

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 170 lb.
• Debut July 14, 1936
• Final Game August 7, 1936
• Born October 6, 1909 in Harrisburg, PA USA
• Died September 26, 1984 in Sebring, FL USA

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Biographical Information

Pennsylvania native Walt Bashore spent four active seasons in professional baseball from 1930 to 1937. For reasons unknown, as of this writing, Bashore was out of pro baseball for four seasons from 1931 through 1934.

Walt played ten games for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1936, from July 14th through August 7th. He appeared as an outfielder, third baseman and pinch-hitter, batting .200 (2-for-10) in his only big league action. In his four active minor league seasons, he appeared with six different clubs in two different leagues. Walt's best year was his last, when he hit .295, in a combined year with the Dayton Ducks of the Class C Middle Atlantic League and the Scranton Miners of the Class A New York-Pennsylvania League. After baseball, Walt became a trainmaster for the Penn Central Railroad until his retirement. Bashore passed away on September 26, 1984, at the Highlands General Hospital in Sebring, FL, at 74.

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