Jack Hiatt

Hiatt played the catcher position for 312 games, but was also called upon to play first base for 70 games and went into the outfield for 2.\n', '

At the beginning of the 1969 San Francisco Giants season, the starting catcher job was won by Dick Dietz. However, when a foul tip bruised his right hand, Hiatt took over the role as starter and made an almost immediate impact. In his first six games after taking over the starting role, Hiatt had four home runs and 13 runs batted in. Hiatt was quoted as saying during the stretch, "It really makes a difference when you know you\'re going to play again every day. It used to be that if I didn\'t have a good game, I wouldn\'t be in the lineup the next game unless somebody was hurt." He gave credit to his hitting coach, Hank Sauer, for the remarkable stretch. Hiatt noted that all of his home runs came on outside corner fastballs. "It\'s a pitch I\'…