Spike Merena, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1909
Place of Birth: Paterson, New Jersey, United States
Date of Death: 09-Mar-1977
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Spike Merena
- John Joseph Merena (November 18, 1909 – March 9, 1977) was a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball in 1934.
- Merena pitched in four games for the Boston Red Sox, starting three of those games, completing two, and collecting his only win in a four-hit shutout over the rival New York Yankees.
- His career was over in the spring of 1935 due to a sore arm.
- His father, Jacob Kosmo Merena, had come from Nove Sonch (Nowy Sacz), Poland (it was Russia at the time), arriving in the United States in 1901.
- Jacob's wife Mary was a New York native, born to two Russian parents.
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