Clyde Franklin Kluttz was an American professional baseball player, executive, and scout. In Major League Baseball, Kluttz was a catcher for the Boston Braves, New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators. He threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet tall and weighed 193 pounds. Born in nearby Rockwell, he was a longtime resident of Salisbury, North Carolina, where he attended Catawba College. In August and September 1952 with Washington, his teammate was George Bradshaw, also a Salisbury native. Kluttz appeared in 52 regular season games as a member of the 1946 world champion Cardinals?and was the starting catcher on October 3 for the flag-clinching Game 2 of the postseason playoff against the Brooklyn Dodgers?but he did not play in the 1946 World Series. In nine Major League seasons Kluttz played in 656 games, and had 1,903 at-bats, 172 runs, 510 hits, 90 doubles, 8 triples, 19 home runs, 212 RBI, 5 stolen bases, 132 walks, .268 batting average, .318 on-base percentage, .354 slugging percentage, 673 total bases and 30 sacrifice hits. [More at Wikipedia]

December 17th, 1917 in Rockwell  /  Died:   May 12th, 1979