Sam Chapman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Center fielder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born: Tiburon, California, U.S. | April 11, 1916|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died: December 22, 2006 Kentfield, California, U.S. | (aged 90)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MLB debut | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
May 16, 1938, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 22, 1951, for the Cleveland Indians | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting average | .266 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Home runs | 180 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 773 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Samuel Blake Chapman (April 11, 1916 – December 22, 2006) was an American two-sport athletic star who played as a center fielder in Major League Baseball, spending nearly his entire career with the Philadelphia Athletics (1938–1941, 1945–1951). He batted and threw right-handed, leading the American League in putouts four times. He was previously an All-American college football player at the University of California.