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Dick Hall Obituary

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Dick Hall was a professional baseball player from the United States. Dick Hall passed away on Sunday, June 18, at the age of 92. No cause of death has been revealed.

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He was a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1952 to 1957 and again from 1959 to 1971. Hall began his career as an outfielder with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1952, but he switched to second base in 1955.

After two years on the mound, he was traded to the Kansas City Athletics in 1960, at the age of 29. After being traded to the Phillies in December 1966, he signed as a free agent with the Orioles in 1969 and finished his career there in 1971.

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He was a member of two World Series championship teams and four American League pennants. In 1989, he was inducted into the Orioles Hall of Fame.

Hall, a Swarthmore College graduate and member of the college’s athletic hall of fame, worked part-time as an accountant during his playing career and retired from full-time CPA work in 2001.

Until the Covid-19 pandemic, he continued to participate in Orioles alumni and community relations activities.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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