Birth
name: Gilbert Raymond Hodges
Nickname: The
Miracle Worker
Birth date: April
4, 1924
Birth place: Princeton,
Indiana
Death date: April
2, 1972
Death place: West
Palm Beach, Florida
Burial location: Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Height: 6’2”
Weight: 200
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Green
College: St. Joseph’s
College
Major: Physical education
College sports: Baseball
Parents: Irene
and Charlie Hodges
Wife: Joan Lombardi
Children: Gil, Jr., Cynthia,
Irene, Barbara
Teams: Brooklyn
Dodgers, Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets
Position: First Base
Jersey number: 14 (retired
in 1982 by the New York Mets)
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Debut Game: Oct. 3, 1943
Final Game: May 5, 1963
Did you know?
Hodges was a member of the Marines ROTC program
at St. Joseph’s and attained the rank of sergeant during
World War II.
A bridge between Brooklyn and Rockaway, a park
on Carroll Street and a little league field on MacDonald Avenue
in Brooklyn were named after him, as was the high school baseball
stadium of his birthplace in Princeton, Indiana.
Hodges was originally signed by the Brooklyn
Dodgers as a third baseman in 1943.
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