Charlie Gassaway, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 12-Aug-1918
Place of Birth: Gassaway, Tennessee, United States
Date of Death: 15-Jan-1992
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Charlie Gassaway
- Charles Cason Gassaway (August 12, 1918 – January 15, 1992) nicknamed "Sheriff", was an American professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher whose 16-season (1937–52) playing career included all or parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs (1944), Philadelphia Athletics (1945), and Cleveland Indians (1946).
- Born in Gassaway, Tennessee, he stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and weighed 210 pounds (95 kg). Gassaway won 153 games in minor league baseball, with a career high of 17 victories in 1944 for the Milwaukee Brewers of the top-level American Association.
- He was called up to the Cubs and made two late-season starts but was ineffective.
- The 1945 season — the last year of the World War II player shortage — was Gassaway's only complete year in the Majors.
- Pitching for the last-place Philadelphia Athletics, he worked in 24 games pitched (including 11 starting assignments) and 118 innings, and posted a 4–7 record with an earned run average of 3.74 and four complete games.
- He split 1946 between the MLB Indians and the Triple-A Oakland Oaks, working in 13 games for Cleveland (with six more starts) from July through the end of the season.
- He then returned to the minors for the remainder of his active career, and spent nine years as a minor league manager, working mostly for the Philadelphia Phillies' organization. During his MLB career, Gassaway appeared in 39 games (with 19 starting assignments) and 180?1/3 innings pitched, allowing 188 hits and 91 bases on balls.
- He struck out 80 and registered four complete games.
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