Hal Peck

Harold Arthur Peck (April 20, 1917 – April 13, 1995) was an American professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1943 through 1949 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Athletics, and Cleveland Indians. Born in Big Bend, Wisconsin, he debuted at age 26 with the Dodgers and was used primarily as a right fielder and pinch-hitter, spending most of his major league time with the Athletics and Indians. Across 355 games he batted .279 with 15 home runs and 112 runs batted in. He was a member of the Cleveland Indians team that won the 1948 World Series against the Boston Braves, appearing in Game 5 as a late-inning defensive replacement in right field without coming to bat. His career fell within the World War II and immediate postwar era. Peck spent much of his life in Wisconsin and died in Milwaukee in 1995 at age 77.