Bernard Aloysius "Bud" Culloton (May 19, 1896 – November 9, 1976) was a

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. He played for the

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."Bud Culloton Statistics and History"
baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 30, 2011. Culloton grew up in

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where he attended Ulster Academy before enrolling at

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and playing freshman

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for the

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. After his education was interrupted by his service in

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, he returned to New York to attended

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. While he was playing for the

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team, it was revealed that he had lost his amateur status by playing for the minor league

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. After graduating from Fordham in 1923, he signed with the Pirates and saw regular action in the 1925 and 1926 seasons. After being traded to the minor league

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in 1926, Culloton quit baseball and enrolled at the

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. After returning to Kingston, he worked as an attorney and was eventually elected a judge in the city court, similar to his manager on the Kingston Colonials, Dutch Schirick, who was also a local judge.

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