Daniel Joseph Carnevale (February 8, 1918 – December 29, 2005) was an American professional baseball

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, second baseman,

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, coach, and

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. Born in

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, Carnevale threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg). Carnevale also played professional basketball for one season in the National Basketball League for the

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Biography

A cousin of former

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infielder

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, Carnevale was a three-sport (baseball,

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and

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) star at Buffalo's

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for high school and attended

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. He served in the

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from August 31, 1943, to February 14, 1946. He deployed to the European theatre during World War II and attained the rank of master sergeant.

Minor league player

Carnevale spent his entire playing and managing career in minor league baseball. A shortstop, he signed with his hometown

(who shared the same name with the basketball team) and hit .354 with 11 home runs and 11 triples in his first professional season, 1937, spent with the Class C Perth-Cornwall Bisons, a Buffalo farm team in the

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. Although he had two trials with Buffalo (in 1938 and 1940), Carnevale batted only .220 in 185 games with the

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Bisons and played much of his active career (1937–1943; 1946–1953) in the middle rungs of the minors. Overall, Carnevale batted .284 in 1,570 minor league games, with 80

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/ref> In 1947 and 1948, as the playing manager of Class D farm clubs of the

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, he batted .380 and .373 in successive seasons; during the latter season, he led the

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in home runs and batting, and won the league championship.milb.com
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Minor league manager

Carnevale began as a manager in 1947, while he was still playing, with the

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. He joined the Phillies' organization in 1948, and he promptly led the

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to a league championship — his first of four titles in a row. He next managed the

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in 1949, the

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in 1950 and the

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in 1951, leading each of them to a league championship. In 1952, he was at the helm of the

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, and led them to the playoffs, though they lost in the first round. He then switched to the

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' system and managed the

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in 1953, winning a league championship — his fifth title in six years, and the final one of his managing career. He led the

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to the 1954 Eastern League playoffs, but lost in the first round. In 1955, he managed his hometown Bisons. He also continued his playing career through 1953. After becoming a minor league executive and then Major League scout, Carnevale had three other managing assignments as an in-season replacement, with the 1962 Binghamton Triplets, taking over from

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, the 1963 Portland Beavers, replacing

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, and the 1972 Beavers, taking the helm from

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. Overall, Carnevale spent 12 seasons managing in the minors, leading 11 different teams. He led teams to the playoffs seven consecutive times and turned five of those playoff appearances into league championship victories.

Major League scouting career

His only campaign in an MLB uniform came when he was a coach for the

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, where he served on the staff of

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, who had worked with Carnevale in the Detroit organization. But Carnevale was a longtime scout for four Major League teams — the Royals, Kansas City / Oakland Athletics,

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and

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— and spent 63 years in professional baseball before his retirement. As a former player, manager and

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of the Triple-A Bisons of the International League, he is a member of the

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and the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. Dan Carnevale died in North Tonawanda, New York, at age 87 after a brief illness on December 29, 2005.

References

External links

Coach's page from Retrosheet
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