Charles Thomas Schilling is an American former professional baseball player. He was a second baseman in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox from 1961?1965. He attended Manhattan College, threw and batted right-handed, stood 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighed 170 pounds. After playing for Boston's Triple-A Minneapolis Millers farm team in 1960, Schilling broke into the Major Leagues in 1961, the same year as his friend and fellow Long Islander, eventual Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski. A slick fielder, his arrival prompted the Red Sox to move the incumbent American League batting champion, Pete Runnels, from second base to first baseman and utility infielder. Schilling appeared in 158 games as a rookie, setting career highs in batting average, hits, runs scored and runs batted in. He committed eight errors in 846 chances for a league-best fielding percentage of .991. He won the Red Sox' Most Valuable Player Award for 1961 as bestowed by the Boston chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. In 1962, Schilling's sophomore season, he suffered a wrist injury causing him to miss over 40 games and impairing his batting ability for the rest of his career. [More at Wikipedia]

October 25th, 1937 in Brooklyn  /  Died:   Mar 30th, 2021