Tony DePhillips
American baseball player (1912–1994)
Anthony Andrew DePhillips (September 20, 1912 – May 5, 1994) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) catcher with the Cincinnati Reds. He played in 35 games, all during the 1943 season.
Biography
DePhillips was born in New York, New York, and attended Fordham University. For his career, he compiled a .100 batting average in 20 at-bats, with two runs batted in.
DePhillips was a standout basketball and baseball player at Newtown High School and at Fordham University. He played minor league baseball for the New York Yankees and played in the Major Leagues. In 1942, DePhillips voluntarily retired in order to spend more time with his wife and baby, Tony, Jr. He accepted a job in October of that year coaching college basketball at the Pratt Institute in addition to his job coaching high school basketball at St. Simon Stock High School in the Bronx.
After retiring in 1942, he played for an amateur team in New York called the Bushwicks.
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