Bruce Konopka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1919
Place of Birth: Hammond, Indiana, United States
Date of Death: 27-Sep-1996
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Bruce Konopka
- Bruno Bruce Konopka (September 16, 1919 – September 27, 1996) was an American professional baseball player during the 1940s.
- A first baseman, his four-season (1942–1943; 1946–1947) professional career was interrupted by service in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
- However, Konopka did appear in 45 Major League games for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1942, 1943 and 1946 seasons.
- He was born in Hammond, Indiana, but attended Manual High School in Denver, Colorado, and college at the University of Southern California.Konopka batted and threw left-handed.
- He stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg). He made his Major League debut in his first pro season.
- In his first game, June 7 at Shibe Park, he relieved Dick Siebert at first base for the Athletics, but was held hitless in two at bats by Bob Muncrief of the St.
- Louis Browns.
- He registered his first MLB hit, a single, as a pinch hitter 16 days later.
- He spent most of the rest of that season with the Class B Wilmington Blue Rocks, but returned to the Athletics in September to go two-for-four against the Washington Senators on September 19.
- He batted only twice for the Athletics in 1943 before being called into the military.
- Then he split the 1946 season between Philadelphia and the Triple-A Toronto Maple Leafs and San Diego Padres.
- In 38 games for the 1946 A's, 20 as the starting first baseman, he collected 22 hits, including four doubles and a triple.
- Altogether, during his brief MLB career, he had 25 hits, scored nine runs, and logged ten runs batted in.
- He did not hit a home run. Konopka played one more year in minor league baseball, in 1947 at the Double-A level, before leaving baseball.
- He died in Denver at the age of 77.
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