Johnny Dickshot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1910
Place of Birth: Waukegan, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 04-Nov-1997
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Johnny Dickshot
- John Oscar Dickshot, commonly known as "Ugly" Johnny Dickshot (born John Oscar Dicksus, January 24, 1910 – November 4, 1997) was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1936 to 1938, the New York Giants in 1939, and the Chicago White Sox from 1944 to 1945.
- He won the nickname "Ugly" because of his self-proclaimed status as the "ugliest man in baseball".
- Born and raised in Waukegan, Illinois, Dickshot began his professional career in the early 1930s playing for the Milwaukee Brewers, which was then a minor league team.
- He entered the majors with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1935.
- In a time before baseball salaries took off, Dickshot worked at a North Chicago steel mill in the off-season. He moved to the Hollywood Stars in the Pacific Coast League in 1941.
- In 1943, he hit .352 for the Stars and had a 33-game hitting streak. He joined the White Sox in 1944 and had his best major league season in 1945, his last year in the majors, when he had a .302 batting average (third-best in the American League) with 58 RBIs, 10 triples and 18 stolen bases in 486 at-bats. Soon after his retirement, Dickshot opened a tavern called the Dugout in Waukegan.
- In his obituary, his granddaughter said he would often call his wife at home from the bar demanding that she look in his encyclopedia to settle a dispute over baseball trivia.
- He threw out a first pitch in the new Comiskey Park in June 1994. Johnny Dickshot died in 1997 in Waukegan.
- He had four daughters and one son, fourteen grandchildren (including the actor John Ducey), and four great-grandchildren.
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