Stan Jok

Third baseman, Baseball Player

1926 – 1972

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Who was Stan Jok?

Stanley Edward Jok was an American professional baseball player. A third baseman, Jok played all or parts of 14 seasons in minor league baseball, where he hit 192 home runs, but his Major League opportunity was limited to 12 total games played with the 1954 Philadelphia Phillies and the 1954–1955 Chicago White Sox. Born in Buffalo, New York, he threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet tall and weighed 190 pounds.

Jok had spent seven full seasons in the minors for three organizations before the Phillies gave him a chance at the outset of the 1954 season. He was used as a pinch hitter in three games, and went hitless. Placed on waivers, he was claimed by the White Sox, who assigned him to their Double-A affiliate, the Memphis Chickasaws, where Jok batted over .300. Recalled in September 1954, he started at three games for the ChiSox. In the first of those games, he registered his first MLB hit, an RBI single off Art Houtteman, and later drew a bases-loaded walk for another RBI. But he collected only one more hit in eight at bats in his next two starts.

Jok made the 1955 White Sox roster coming out of spring training and appeared in six more games, largely as a pinch hitter and pinch runner. But in his only start at third base, on May 1 at Comiskey Park against the Baltimore Orioles, Jok connected for his only Major League home run, a solo shot off Jim McDonald. He returned to minor league baseball for good at the mid-May cutdown. As a Major Leaguer, Jok had 22 plate appearances and 19 at-bats; of his three hits, only his homer went for extra bases.

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Born
May 3, 1926
Buffalo
Also known as
  • Stanley Edward Jok
  • Tucker
Profession
Lived in
  • Buffalo
Died
Mar 6, 1972
Buffalo

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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