Gerald Francis Coleman was a Major League Baseball second baseman for the New York Yankees and manager of the San Diego Padres for one year.
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25 Facts About Jerry Coleman
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Jerry Coleman was named the rookie of the year in 1949 by Associated Press, and was an All-Star in 1950 and later that year was named the World Series Most Valuable Player.
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Jerry Coleman served as a Marine Corps pilot in World War II and the Korean War, flying combat missions with the VMSB-341 Torrid Turtles and VMA-323 Death Rattlers in both wars.
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Jerry Coleman later became a broadcaster, and he was honored in 2005 by the National Baseball Hall of Fame with the Ford C Frick Award for his broadcasting contributions.
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Jerry Coleman played six years in the Yankees' minor league system before reaching the big club in 1949.
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Jerry Coleman was the Associated Press rookie of the year in 1949 and finished third in balloting by Baseball Writers' Association of America.
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Jerry Coleman avoided a sophomore slump by earning a selection to the All-Star team in 1950.
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Jerry Coleman then shone in the World Series with brilliant defense, earning him the BBWAA's Babe Ruth Award as the series's most valuable player.
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Jerry Coleman was the only Major League Baseball player to see combat in two wars.
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Jerry Coleman's career declined after he was injured the following season, relegating him to a bench role.
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Jerry Coleman was forced to retire after the 1957 season, but he left on a good note, hitting.
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Jerry Coleman appeared in the World Series six times in his career, winning four of them.
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Jerry Coleman appeared on the February 5,1957 of the CBS game show To Tell the Truth as an imposter for singer Don Rondo.
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In 1960, Jerry Coleman began a broadcasting career with CBS television, conducting pregame interviews on the network's Game of the Week broadcasts.
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Jerry Coleman's broadcasting career nearly ended that year; he was in the midst of an interview with Cookie Lavagetto when the national anthem began playing.
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Jerry Coleman kept the interview going through the anthem, prompting an avalanche of angry letters to CBS.
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Jerry Coleman lent these catchphrases to great use when the Padres defeated the Chicago Cubs in Game 5 of the 1984 National League Championship Series to clinch the pennant and their first ever trip to the World Series.
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Jerry Coleman called national regular-season and postseason broadcasts for CBS Radio from the mid-1970s to 1997.
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Jerry Coleman was known as the "Master of the Malaprop" for making sometimes embarrassing mistakes on the microphone, but he was nonetheless popular.
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Jerry Coleman was inducted into the San Diego Padres Hall of Fame in 2001.
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In fall 2007, Jerry Coleman was inducted to the National Radio Hall of Fame as a sports broadcaster for his years as the play-by-play voice of the San Diego Padres.
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Jerry Coleman collaborated on his autobiography with longtime New York Times writer Richard Goldstein; their book An American Journey: My Life on the Field, In the Air, and On the Air was published in 2008.
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Jerry Coleman's statue is the second statue at Petco Park, the other being of Hall of Fame outfielder Tony Gwynn.
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Jerry Coleman's death was reported by the San Diego Padres on January 5,2014.
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Jerry Coleman died after being hospitalized after a fall in his home.
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