Jerry Witte

American baseball player (1915-2002)

Baseball player

Jerry Witte

First baseman
Born: (1915-07-30)July 30, 1915
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died: April 27, 2002(2002-04-27) (aged 86)
Houston, Texas, U.S.

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut
September 10, 1946, for the St. Louis Browns
Last MLB appearance
July 13, 1947, for the St. Louis Browns
MLB statistics
Batting average| .163
Home runs| 4
Runs batted in| 16
Stats at Baseball Reference
Teams

* St. Louis Browns (1946–47)

Jerome Charles Witte (July 30, 1915 – April 27, 2002) was an American professional baseball player. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball, 1946 and 1947, for the St. Louis Browns, primarily as a first baseman. He also had a long minor league baseball career, spanning 16 seasons from 1937 until 1952. In 1946, he won the American Association Most Valuable Player Award while playing for the Toledo Mud Hens, earning a shot at the major leagues that September.

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* Career statistics from Baseball Reference · Baseball Reference (Minors) · Retrosheet

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American Association MVP Award

* 1929: Rogell
* 1930: Olivares
* 1931: none
* 1932: Crawford
* 1933: Hauser
* 1934: Hargrave
* 1935: Ryba
* 1936: York
* 1937: Kress
* 1938: Bejma
* 1938: Wyatt
* 1939: English
* 1940: Rizzuto
* 1941: Pesky
* 1942: Stanky
* 1943: Hofferth
* 1944: Martin
* 1945: Wentzel
* 1946: Witte
* 1947: Gerkin
* 1948: Fleming
* 1949: Fernandez
* 1950: Dandridge
* 1951: Unser
* 1952: Bollweg
* 1953: Conley
* 1954: Score
* 1955: Pless
* 1956: Throneberry
* 1957: Willey
* 1958: Terwilliger
* 1959: Will
* 1960: Boros
* 1961: Cook
* 1962: Smith
* 1969: Carbo
* 1970: Spriggs
* 1971: Scheinblum
* 1972: Bourque
* 1973: C. Johnson
* 1974: LaCock
* 1975: Cruz
* 1976: Freed
* 1977: Ortenzio
* 1978: Summers
* 1979: Pagel
* 1980: Bass
* 1981: Castillo
* 1982: Phelps
* 1983: Stenhouse
* 1984: Knicely
* 1985: Buechele
* 1986: Larkin
* 1987: L. Johnson
* 1988: de los Santos
* 1989: Vaughn
* 1990: González
* 1991: Olander
* 1992: Tatum
* 1993: Zambrano
* 1994: Hosey
* 1995: Owens
* 1996: Stevens
* 1997: Ordóñez

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