Playing career Sisler's 1951 Bowman baseball card He then made his MLB debut with the Redbirds in April 1946, spending a full season for the eventual National League and World Series champions. In his first game, Sisler recorded two home runs and in another game hit three more. After a couple of weeks, the Cubans were proclaiming Sisler as their Babe Ruth. Upon his discharge in 1945, the Cardinals sent Sisler to Cuba to learn how to play first base. Sisler rose to chief petty officer and served as a physical instructor at the Bainbridge Naval Training Center in Maryland. He spent four years in the minor leagues, then, in 1943, enlisted in the United States Navy to help fight World War II. Sisler enrolled at Colgate University, where he played baseball for one year before dropping out to sign a minor-league contract with the St. At John Burroughs School, a progressive private school his father helped found in 1923, he excelled in football, basketball, track, and baseball. was a longtime executive in Minor League Baseball (MiLB).
400 hitter George Sisler, Dick Sisler's younger brother Dave was a relief pitcher in the 1950s and 1960s with four MLB teams, and his older brother George Jr. The son of Hall of Fame first baseman and two-time. Richard Alan Sisler (Novem– November 20, 1998) was an American player, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball. Louis CardinalsĪugust 1, 1953, for the St.
