Naples was born in Staten Island, New York and attended Georgetown University, where he majored in Latin, from 1946 to 1949. He signed a professional contract with the St. Louis Browns in 1949 and made his major league debut starting against the Boston Red Sox on June 26, 1949. Naples had one hit, a double to right field, against Boston ace Mel Parnell (who won 25 games that year, including Naples\' debut).\n', '

Naples sat on the bench for a month (the Browns already had Eddie Pellagrini and John Sullivan to play shortstop), then started one more game and was sent down to the Class B Springfield Browns of the Three-I League. That year, Naples hit .232 with no home runs in 56 games for Springfield, who finished last and folded after the season. On October 21, 1949, Naples was released unconditionally by the Browns.\n', '

Naples signed with the Browns\' other Class B affiliate, the Wichita Falls Spudders of the Big State League for the 1950 season but did not play for the Spudders that year or for any other professional team afterwards; at age 23, his professional baseball career was over.\n', '

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