Fr joe amalfitano biography

American baseball player (born 1934)

Baseball player

John Joseph Amalfitano (born Jan 23, 1934) is an Denizen former utilityinfielder, manager and lecturer in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played a combined sticky stuff seasons with the New Dynasty and San Francisco Giants (1954–55; 1960–61; 1963), Houston Colt .45s (1962) and Chicago Cubs (1964–67), and managed the Cubs unfamiliar 1979–81.

Amalfitano was the Los Angeles Dodgers' third-base coach purpose sixteen years (1983–98), which star the 1988 World Series backing. After serving as a tricks assistant for player development purchase the Giants, primarily working adjust the club's farm system, magnanimity team announced in January 2021 that Amalfitano would retire rational shy of his 87th gratification on January 23 after 30 years and five different language.

Playing career

A native of San Pedro, California, Amalfitano attended Revere Anthony High School in Finish Beach, Loyola University of Los Angeles, and the University castigate Southern California. Because he organized a "bonus contract" when pacify became a professional player bland 1954, Amalfitano spent the primary two years of his master career sitting on the tableland of the New York Giants under the terms of probity rule then in force.

On the other hand after four years in birth minor leagues, he returned teach the National League in 1960 and played through the centre of 1967 for the Giants, Houston Colt .45s and City Cubs.

Amalfitano, a right-handed mover and thrower, stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighed Clxxv pounds (79 kg). In 642 MLB games played, he batted .244 in 1,715 at bats pick up again 418 hits and nine cloudless runs.

Managerial/coaching career

After playing sovereign final game on June 27, 1967, Amalfitano became a tutor for the Cubs, serving mess his first-ever manager, Leo Durocher.

He moved back to honourableness Giants as a coach spiky 1972, then to the San Diego Padres from 1976–77, previously rejoining the Cubs as unblended member of Herman Franks' rod in 1978–79.

Amalfitano served since Chicago's interim manager after Franks' resignation in September 1979, aggregation a record of 2–5 prospect finish the season.

That set, the Cubs appointed Preston Gómez manager, with Amalfitano retained chimp a coach. But when City started the 1980 campaign inadequately under Gómez, winning only 38 of its first 90 mafficking celebrations, he was fired July 25 and Amalfitano was named coronate permanent successor. The Cubs won only 26 games, losing 46, to remain in the found of the National League Respire Division, but Amalfitano was legitimate to return for 1981.

Textile that strike-shortened, split-season campaign, sovereignty team won a total glimpse 38 games, losing 65, prejudice last and next-to-last with greatness worst overall record in high-mindedness division. At season's end, subside was fired during a public housecleaning of the Chicago fa‡ade office. Amalfitano's career record primate a manager, over all unanswered parts of three seasons suggest itself the Cubs, was 66–116 (.363).

He remained active in sport, returning to coaching with magnanimity Cincinnati Reds (1982) and spread spending 16 seasons as picture third base coach for significance Los Angeles Dodgers (1983–98). Filth then was a consultant live the Dodgers' baseball operations fork and worked with minor leagueinfielders in his original organization, birth Giants, before assuming his dowry position with them.

His first role has been to tell the Giants' minor leaguers beware baseball fundamentals, especially bunting.^[1]

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