Jim Gentile
Baseball
Born in San Francisco, California, Gentile was a powerful, left-handed slugger listed at 6\' 4", 215 lb. He was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as a high school pitcher in 1952. He played his first minor league season as a pitcher, earning a 2-6 win-lost record. The next year he was converted into a first baseman. He languished for eight years in the minors for a Dodgers team that already had All-Star Gil Hodges at first base and Norm Larker. He dominated the minors, leading two separate leagues in home runs.\n', "
On September 24, 1957, Gentile made the last putout at Brooklyn's famed Ebbets Field in the final game ever played there. Dee Fondy, batting for Pittsburgh, hit a ground ball to Don Zimmer at shortstop. Zimmer threw to Gentile at first base for the game's final out. \n", '
Gentile was traded to Baltimore in 1960, where he was named to the 1960 All-Star Game his first full s…
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