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Cookie Lavagetto
Third baseman, Baseball Player
1912 – 1990
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Who was Cookie Lavagetto?
Harry Arthur "Cookie" Lavagetto was a third baseman, manager and coach in American Major League Baseball. He is most widely known as the pinch hitter whose double ruined Bill Bevens' no-hitter in Game 4 of the 1947 World Series and gave his Brooklyn Dodgers a breathtaking victory over the New York Yankees, a game known as The Cookie Game.
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- Born
- Dec 1, 1912
Oakland - Profession
- Education
- Oakland Technical High School
- Lived in
- Oakland
- Died
- Aug 10, 1990
Orinda
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on July 23, 2013
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