Willie Kirkland
Baseball
Kirkland signed with the New York Giants in 1952 upon his graduation from Detroit\'s Northwestern High School. He threw right-handed, stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 206 pounds (93 kg). A prodigious minor-league slugger, he rose through the organization over his first four seasons, three times exceeding the 35-home run mark, and winning a batting title and runs batted in championship on the way. Kirkland then spent all of 1957 in the military.\n', '
When he mustered out of the service in 1958, he became a member of the MLB Giants during their first season in San Francisco. He won the regular right field job and appeared in the team\'s first-ever official game on the West Coast: an 8–0 thrashing of the Los Angeles Dodgers at Seals Stadium on April 15. Batting cleanup, behind Willie Mays, the 24-year-old rookie collected a single and an RBI in five at bats. Kirkland was part…
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