Gino Cimoli

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Gino Nicholas Cimoli (born December 18, 1929, in San Francisco, California) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball.

A high school all-star at Galileo High School, Cimoli signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1949, Cimoli would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 19, 1956, and appeared in his final game on May 7, 1965.

Cimoli played on the Pirates' 1960 World Series champions, who defeated the New York Yankees in seven games. In the eighth inning of that 7th game, his Pirates trailing 7-4, Cimoli, pinch-hitting for pitcher Roy Face, led off with a single off Bobby Shantz, advanced to second on Bill Virdon's bad-hop ground ball, which struck Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek in the throat, then scored on Dick Groat's single, the first run in a five-run inning to give the Pirates a 9-7 lead. The Pirates gave the lead away in the ninth before finally winning the game in the bottom half on Bill Mazeroski's leadoff home run.

The book Carl Erskine's Tales from the Dodgers Dugout: Extra Innings (2004) includes short stories from former Dodger pitcher Carl Erskine. Cimoli is prominent in many of these stories.

[edit] See also

• List of Major League Baseball triples champions

[edit] External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
• Baseball Hall of Fame: Colorful Cimoli Always a Good Quote

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