Wally Rehg

Wally Rehg
Outfielder
Born: August 31, 1888(1888-08-31)
Summerfield, Illinois
Died: April 5, 1946(1946-04-05) (aged 57)
Burbank, California
Batted: Right Threw: Right 
MLB debut
April 14, 1912 for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Last MLB appearance
May 10, 1919 for the Cincinnati Reds
Career statistics
Batting average     .250
Home runs     2
Runs batted in     66
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Walter Phillip Rehg (August 31, 1888 - April 5, 1946) was a reserve outfielder in Major League Baseball, playing mostly as a right fielder for four different teams between the 1912 and 1919 seasons. Listed at 5' 8", 160 lb., Rehg batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Summerfield, Illinois.

Rehg entered the majors in 1912 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, playing for them one year before joining the Boston Red Sox (1913–1915), Boston Braves (1917–1918) and Cincinnati Reds (1919). He appeared in a career-high 88 games with the 1914 Red Sox, as a backup for the fabled Million-Dollar Outfield of Duffy Lewis (LF), Tris Speaker (CF) and Harry Hooper (RF). His most productive season came in 1917 with the Braves, when he posted career-numbers in batting average (.270), runs (48), RBI (31) and stolen bases (13), while appearing in 87 games. He also was a member of the 1919 National League champions Reds, although he did not play in the World Series.

In a seven-season career, Rehg was a .250 hitter (188-for-752) with two home runs and 66 RBI in 263 games, including 85 runs, 24 doubles, 11 triples and 26 stolen bases.

In between major league stops, Rehg saw regular action in the minor leagues at St. Paul and Providence, and also served in the United States Navy in 1918 during World War I. He also played in the minors from 1920 through 1930, mostly for Triple-A Indianapolis Indians, and managed the Tucson team of the Arizona State League in his last baseball season.

Besides baseball, Rehg appeared in the films Fast Company (1929), playing himself, and as an uncredited ballplayer in Alibi Ike (1935), a baseball comedy starred by Joe Brown and Olivia de Havilland.

Following his baseball career, Regh worked as an electrician helper at Paramount Pictures Studios until the time of his death, in Burbank, California, at the age of 57. He was buried in Glendale's Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery.

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