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Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
RIP Mr. Skowron.
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William Joseph “Moose” Skowron Jr. (December 18,1930 - April 27, 2012) is a former Major League Baseball player, primarily a first baseman. He was a Community Relations Representative for the White Sox.
Skowron was born in Chicago, Illinois, and is of Polish descent. His father was a garbage collector. After his grandfather gave the seven year old Skowron a haircut that looked like the dictator’s and his friends jokingly called him “Mussolini”, his family shortened the nickname to “Moose.”[1] The name stuck throughout his career.
“Moose” attended Weber High School on the intersection of Division and Ashland in Chicago. He went to Purdue University, where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, on a football scholarship, but found himself better suited to baseball when he hit .500 as a sophomore, a record in the Big Ten Conference that lasted ten years.
Signed by the New York Yankees in 1950 as an amateur free agent, he played his first game for the Yankees on April 13, 1954. He wore uniform number 53 in the 1954 season, but switched to #14 in 1955 and stayed with that number for the rest of his years with the Yankees. In the beginning, he was platooned at first base with Joe Collins, but from 1958 on he became the Yankees’ full time first baseman. He played in five All-Star Games as a Yankee: 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, and 1961.
On November 26, 1962 he was traded by the Yankees to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Stan Williams. He kept his Yankee uniform number, 14, on the Dodgers. Although Skowron floundered against National League pitching, batting just .203 in 237 at bats with four home runs, he stunned his former team in the 1963 World Series. Playing against his old Yankee teammates, Skowron led the Dodgers with a .385 average and a home run, as Los Angeles swept New York in four straight games.
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RIP Moose. Gave me quite a relief to see another right handed hitter hit so many of his HR's to right field.
RIP, Moose.
Good memories of Moose Skowron at first base for the White Sox in the 60’s. My favorite Sox player tho, was Mike Hershberger, a fleet-footed strong armed right fielder who tried to throw out runners at first base on line drive singles to right. Andy the Clown could make his yell “C’mon Hershberger!” seemingly last a full minute.
I seem to recall Moose playing for the Senators under Ted Williams, is my old mind fading?
his BB card said he was born in 1928
RIP.
I loved Moose Skowron. He was a great guy, and I enjoyed when he would sit in during White Sox broadcasts in recent years. I’m so sorry to hear of his passing. RIP, Moose. God bless the Skowron family.