Maurice Joseph "Mo" Mozzali (December 12, 1922 — March 2, 1987) was an American professional baseball outfielder,

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. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Mozzali threw and batted left-handed, stood tall and weighed . Mozzali played all but one full season of his 12-year (1946–48; 1950–58) career in the St. Louis Cardinals' organization. The year he did not, 1947, was spent in the

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' system with the Minneapolis Millers. Although he never reached Major League Baseball as a player, he was a fixture at the Triple-A level as a member of the Columbus Red Birds and the Omaha Cardinals of the

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. Mozzali also spent time in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. A huge favorite of local fans, he was a member of the Cervecería and Leones clubs in three seasons spanning 1951–55, before joining the

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in the 1956–57 campaign. During those four seasons, he posted a .315 batting average with 86 runs and 74 run batted in in 156 games, clubbing 185

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, 38 doubles, five

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, three home runs, and 10

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s. He also played with Caracas in the

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of the Georgia–Florida League, Mozalli retired from the field. He batted .298 with 80 home runs in 1,463 minor league games. Mozzali then became a scout for the Cardinals, serving from 1959 through 1976. He spent the

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seasons as a member of the big-league Cardinals'

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, during the managerial tenures of

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. He then resumed his former job as a Redbird scout. Mozzali died in Lakeland, Florida, at the age of 64.

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Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics
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