Ollie Carnegie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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professional baseball player
Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1899
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 04-Oct-1976
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Ollie Carnegie
- Oliver Angelo "Ollie" Carnegie (June 29, 1899 [or 1898] – October 4, 1976) was an Italian American professional baseball player whose playing career spanned 15 seasons.
- Over that time, Carnegie played in the minor leagues with the Class-B Flint Vehicles (1922) of the Michigan–Ontario League; the Class-B Hazleton Mountaineers (1931) of the New York–Penn League; the Double-A Buffalo Bisons (1931–1941, 1945) of the International League; and the Class-D Lockport White Sox (1942) and the Class-D Jamestown Falcons (1944) of the PONY League.
- In 1,539 career games played, Carnegie batted .309 with 1665 hits, 302 doubles, 48 triples and 297 home runs.
- Carnegie batted and threw right-handed.
- Carnegie also managed the Class-D Jamestown Falcons in 1944.
- Officially a player-manager since he also played 96 games that season, Carnegie led the Falcons to a 70–54 record which was good enough for second overall in the PONY League. In 1921, Carnegie started playing professional baseball.
- He later left the professional circuit to play in a semi-professional baseball league based in Allegheny County, where he was from.
- Over those years, Carnegie played for teams representing Dormont, Pennsylvania, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, Pitcairn, Pennsylvania and others.
- The Pittsburgh Press, who covered the league, nicknamed Carnegie the "Bambino" and described him as the "sandlot Babe Ruth".
- Carnegie returned to professional baseball in 1931 after accepting a contract with the Hazleton Mountaineers, a minor league team owned by the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Buffalo Bisons purchased Carnegie from the Hazleton Mountaineers in 1931.
- This would be the beginning of a tenure that would last 12 nonconsecutive seasons.
- Carnegie is the Bisons career record holder in hits, home runs, runs batted in and games played.
- He also holds the Bisons' single-season record in home runs with 42.
- Carnegie led the International League in home runs in 1938 and 1939.
- Carnegie has won multiple accolades during his career and after.
- In 1938, he won the Most Valuable Player in the International League.
- Carnegie was the career International League leader in home runs with 258, until Mike Hessman hit his 259th on June 30, 2014.
- He is the career leader in runs batted in (1,044) for the International League.
- He was also an inaugural member of the International League Hall of Fame and the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame.
- Carnegie is also a Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame member, inducted in 1992.
- Amongst many fans and professionals, Carnegie is widely renowned as one of the best Buffalo baseball players ever.
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