Wally Berger
Baseball Player
1905 – 1988
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Who was Wally Berger?
Walter Anton Berger was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for four National League teams, primarily the Boston Braves. One of the league's top sluggers of the early 1930s, in his initial 1930 season he hit 38 home runs, a record for rookies which stood until 1987. He still holds a share of the NL record. He also led the league in home runs and runs batted in in 1935, and went on to become the seventh NL player to hit 200 career home runs.
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- Born
- Oct 10, 1905
Chicago - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- San Francisco
- Died
- Nov 30, 1988
Redondo Beach
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on July 23, 2013
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