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Ted Crawford Sizemore (born April 15, 1945) is a former
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second baseman. He was named the
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's Rookie of the Year in .


Early life

Sizemore was born in
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, but moved to
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, at the age of two years. As a
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for
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team, he earned All-city honors three times. He also earned All-city honors playing fullback in
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and
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in
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twice each. He was high school teammates with
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playing under coach Will Robinson.


College career

At the
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, he was a varsity letterman from to , and received All-
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honors in and 1966. In 1966, he batted .321 to receive District
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honors. In , the university created the "Ted Sizemore Award" to honor the school's top defensive player each season.


Baseball career

The
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selected Sizemore in the fifteenth round of the 1966 Major League Baseball draft. He served strictly as a catcher his first professional season, but his bat (.330, 4
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s and 37 RBIs for the
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's
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) prompted the Dodgers organization to try him more in the
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in and . In need of
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s, the Dodgers had Sizemore play second base in the Winter Instructional League in . Following
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' departure in the
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,
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shifted Sizemore over to
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at the beginning of
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.


Los Angeles Dodgers I (1969-1970)

Sizemore won the starting shortstop job that spring. Despite a two
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performance against the
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, Sizemore proved himself an adequate shortstop. Still, with second baseman
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not hitting, Sizemore began seeing more time at second by the end of his first month in the majors. With
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' acquisition on June 11, the move became permanent. With his bat, Sizemore got off to a hot start in his rookie season, but cooled off in June and July. He picked it up again in the final two months of the season to finish at .271 with four home runs 46
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and 69 runs scored. He received fourteen of 24 first place votes to be named the National League's Rookie of the Year. Sizemore got off to a slow start in . He was batting .257 with one home run, twelve RBIs and fourteen runs scored when he ruptured his thigh muscle on June 11 against the
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. He returned in late July, and his hitting actually improved. He batted .342 to bring his season average to .306 until a sprained wrist ended his season. That winter, he and minor league catcher
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were traded to the Cardinals for slugging
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.


St. Louis Cardinals (1971-1975)

He began his tenure with the Cardinals splitting time between shortstop and second base, but as the season wore on, he began taking more and more playing time away from veteran
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at second. He batted .264 each of his first two seasons in St. Louis. His finest season came in , when he put up career highs in batting (.282), RBIs (54) and runs (69, tying the career high he set his rookie season), while leading the National League in
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with 25. In , Sizemore usually batted second behind
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. Brock set a record with 118
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s that season, and credited Sizemore's patience at the plate batting behind him as a big factor. Perhaps his most dramatic moment with the Cards came in an
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affair with the
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on August 7, . Leading off the bottom of the thirteenth inning, Sizemore hit a walk-off
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off
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. The low point of his Cardinals career also came against the Mets. On April 17, , Sizemore tied a record for major league second basemen with three errors in an inning.


Los Angeles Dodgers II (1976)

On March 2, , Sizemore returned to the Dodgers in exchange for
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. He was acquired for his versatility, and in the event that a proposed deal sending shortstop
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to the Cardinals for outfielder
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ever materialized (in which case, second baseman
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would move to short, and Sizemore would inherit the second base job). A deal for Smith would not be worked out until June 15, after the season started, and the Cardinals settled for minor league
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Fred Tisdale in the package for Smith, instead. However, a pulled rib muscle by Lopes in Spring training had Sizemore opening the season as the Dodgers' starting second baseman regardless.


Catching debut

As the game with the
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went into its tenth inning on August 2, Alston moved Sizemore from second base to catcher for the first time in his major league career. He handled
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for two innings without incident. This was followed by a complete game behind the plate on September 19 against the
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. Aside from a
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in the fourth, he handled
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perfectly, as they held the Braves to one run and six hits. The final out of the game was a pop up by
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caught by Sizemore in foul territory.


Philadelphia Phillies (1977-1978)

The
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champion
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were in dire need of a second baseman following All-Star Dave Cash's departure via free agency. At the 1976
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, they swung a deal for Sizemore for back-up catcher
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. Batting eighth in the Phillies line-up in , Sizemore was relied upon more for his glove than his bat with his new club. He turned a league leading 104
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s, while also grounding into a league-leading 25, tying the Phillies single-season record set by
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in . He reached the post-season for the first time in his career, as the Phillies duplicated their 101-61 record from the previous season to face Sizemore's former team, the Dodgers, in the 1977 National League Championship Series. With the Phillies leading 5-3 in the ninth inning of game three, Sizemore committed an error on a throw from
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that opened the door for the Dodgers to score three runs and steal a 6-5 victory. It was Sizemore's second error of the series, won by the Dodgers in four games. On April 28, , Sizemore broke his hand on a play at second base with the
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' Gene Richards. The injury sidelined Sizemore until the end of June, and likely played a part in the career low .219
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he put up that year. Regardless, the Phillies repeated as division champions, and Sizemore provided the Phillies with one of the few bright spots in their line-up in the
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. The Dodgers once again defeated the Phillies in four games, however, Sizemore batted .385 with a
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, an RBI and three runs scored.


Chicago Cubs (1979)

Just as
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s and catchers were reporting to Spring training in , Sizemore went to the
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in a trade. He,
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, Jerry Martin and minor leaguers
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and Henry Mack went to the Cubs for
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, Dave Rader and
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.


Boston Red Sox (1979-1980)

Toward the end of his only season in
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, he was dealt to the
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for a
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when Bosox starting second baseman
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and his back-up,
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, were both sidelined with injuries. In his first game in the
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, he went three-for-three with a
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, two RBIs and a run scored. The Red Sox also used him twice at catcher shortly after his acquisition. Sizemore won a reserve job with the Sox out of Spring training , but with the emergence of rookie Dave Stapleton at second base, saw very little action. The Red Sox explored the possibility of selling the veteran to another club, but found no takers, and released him on May 30.


Personal

After Sizemore's retirement as a player, he went to work for
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manufacturer Rawlings, as their chief liaison with major league players. Currently, Sizemore serves as the CEO of the
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Career stats

Sizemore was part of a core of young Dodgers prospects that became known as "The Mod Squad" after the popular TV series of the same name, and appeared on the cover of the May 19, 1969 edition of ''
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'', along with his fellow Mod Squad members.


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