Samuel Blake Chapman was an American two-sport athletic star who played as a center fielder in Major League Baseball, spending nearly his entire career with the Philadelphia Athletics.
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10 Facts About Sam Chapman
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Sam Chapman batted and threw right-handed, leading the American League in putouts four times.
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Sam Chapman was previously an All-American college football player at the University of California.
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Sam Chapman was named an All-American for the 1937 Pacific Coast Conference and national champion "Thunder Team", which went on to win the 1938 Rose Bowl; the last time California has won the game.
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Later nicknamed the "Tiburon Terror", Sam Chapman was an All-American college baseball player.
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Sam Chapman played most of the season in left field, moving to center field the following year.
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Sam Chapman joined the Navy for World War II after the 1941 season, and served as a pilot and flight instructor in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Sam Chapman returned to the Athletics in late 1945, and was named to the AL All-Star team in 1946.
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Sam Chapman died at an assisted-living residence in Kentfield, California, at the age of 90, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years.
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