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15 Facts About Saul Rogovin

1.

Saul Walter Rogovin was an American professional baseball player.

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Saul Rogovin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was Jewish.

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3.

Saul Rogovin married Doreen Lipsit at Rodeph Shalom in New York on January 30,1955.

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4.

Saul Rogovin played Class D ball in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania for the Beaver Falls Bees for $60 a month in 1941.

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5.

Saul Rogovin played for a short time with their Jersey City Giants affiliate in Jersey City before his contract was sold to the Chattanooga Lookouts.

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6.

Saul Rogovin pitched a shutout game against the Birmingham Barons to close the 1945 season.

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7.

Saul Rogovin played for the Pensacola Fliers and Buffalo Bisons.

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8.

Saul Rogovin hit a grand slam off Eddie Lopat of the New York Yankees.

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9.

Saul Rogovin had 12 wins and eight losses that year, with seven losses by one run and one by two runs.

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10.

Saul Rogovin then decided to resume the college studies he had begun more than 30 years earlier.

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11.

Saul Rogovin was 51 years old when he started studying for a degree in Education at Manhattan Community College.

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12.

Saul Rogovin transferred to and graduated from City College, with a degree in English literature.

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13.

Saul Rogovin then began teaching English and literature in the New York City high schools at age 56.

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14.

Saul Rogovin taught first at Hughes High School in New York, and then at Eastern District High School in Brooklyn the last eight years of his teaching career.

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15.

Saul Rogovin died on January 23,1995, at the age of 71 from bone cancer, and is buried at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York.

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