Gino Nicholas Cimoli (born December 18, 1929, in San Francisco, California) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball.
A high school all-star at Galileo High School, as an amateur free agent, Cimoli signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949. He would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Dodgers on April 19, 1956; appearing in his final game on May 7, 1965.
Cimoli played on the Pirates' 1960 World Series champions, who defeated the N...
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Gino Nicholas Cimoli (born December 18, 1929, in San Francisco, California) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball.
A high school all-star at Galileo High School, as an amateur free agent, Cimoli signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949. He would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Dodgers on April 19, 1956; appearing in his final game on May 7, 1965.
Cimoli played on the Pirates' 1960 World Series champions, who defeated the New York Yankees in seven games. In the eighth inning of that 7th game, his Pirates trailing 7-4, Cimoli, pinch-hitting for pitcher Roy Face, led off with a single off Bobby Shantz, advanced to second on Bill Virdon's bad-hop ground ball, which struck Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek in the throat, then scored on Dick Groat's single, the first run in a five-run inning to give the Pirates a 9-7 lead. The Pirates gave the lead away in the ninth before finally winning the game in the bottom half on Bill Mazeroski's leadoff home run.
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