Dave Pope, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1921
Place of Birth: Talladega, Alabama, United States
Date of Death: 28-Aug-1999
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Dave Pope
- David Pope (June 17, 1921 – August 28, 1999) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who played for four seasons in MLB for the Cleveland Indians in 1952, and from 1954 to 1955.
- He then played for the Baltimore Orioles after being traded from 1955 to 1956, then was traded back to Cleveland for the remainder of the 1956 season.
- He left MLB behind on September 30th 1956. Pope, the son of Jackson and Mary Pope, was one of eleven siblings.
- His older brother Willie Pope was a notable Negro league baseball player for the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords.Although his major league career spanned roughly four years, Pope has a place in the photo and film archive for Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, as part of a play which contrasted with Willie Mays's famous catch.
- In the top of the 8th inning, Vic Wertz of Cleveland had hit a deep fly ball (400 or more feet) to center field which had been pulled down by Mays for a very long out.
- In the last of the 10th inning, Giants' pinch-hitter Dusty Rhodes hit a shallow fly ball, well under 300 feet, toward the cozy right field area of the Polo Grounds.
- Pope, who had been brought into the game in the late innings, ran over and leaped as high as he could but was a couple of feet short of being able to catch Rhodes' fly ball, which landed in the first row of seats for the game-winning home run.[1] His 1956 Topps baseball card for the Baltimore Orioles gave him some vicarious redemption for that failed leap in 1954: It included a colorized drawing based on the black-and-white picture, but with the ball in his glove.[2] In 1141.2 innings playing at all three outfield positions, Pope recorded a .990 fielding percentage, committing only 3 errors in 315 total chances. Pope died in Cleveland, Ohio in 1999 and was buried at Lake View Cemetery in the same city.
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