Corrales was a baseball and football star at Fresno High School in Fresno, California and a teammate of future major-league pitchers Jim Maloney and Dick Ellsworth. An offensive guard and linebacker, he was named lineman of the year by the Fresno Bee. After high school, he signed as an amateur free agent with the Phillies in 1959.\n', '

He made his major league playing debut at age 23 on August 2, 1964 with the Phillies. He pinch-hit for pitcher John Boozer in the fifth inning, grounding out against the Los Angeles Dodgers\' Larry Miller in a 6-1 Phillies loss at Connie Mack Stadium. His first career hit came the next year on June 15, 1965 in a 12-7 Phillies loss to the Milwaukee Braves at County Stadium when he singled in the eighth inning off Tony Cloninger and later scored. He had one of his best career games the next day when, in a 6-2 Phillies win over the Braves, he started at catcher and went 3-4 with his first major league home run (a two-run shot in the third inning against Denny Lemaster).\n', '

In a nine-year playing career as a backup catcher (including to Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench), Corrales played in 300 games with 166 hits, four home runs, 54 runs batted in and a .216 batting average. He appeared in one game of the 1970 World Series for the Reds and batted once, grounding out for the final out of the series as the Reds fell in five games to the Baltimore Orioles.\n', '

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