Former Giants outfielder Hal Bamberger passes away
Harold E. Bamberger, 86, Robeson Township,
Berks County, died Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010,
at 10:58 p.m. in Reading Hospital, where he
was a patient for 12 days. He married Mary (Simenec) on Dec. 9, 1948. Born in Lebanon on Oct. 29, 1924, he was a son of the late Henry V. and Sadie (Bixler) Bamberger. Bamberger graduated from Cornwall High School in Lebanon City and went on to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years, mostly in the South Pacific during World War II. Bamberger was an outstanding athlete at Cornwall and earned letters in four sports. He played professional baseball for seven years with stops at Concord, N.C., Trenton, N.J., Minneapolis, Minn., Jersey City, N.J., Birmingham, Ala., and Jacksonville, Fla., and was called up to the New York Giants at the end of the 1948 season, where he played three games under the manager Leo Durocher. Bamberger managed a farm team in Muskogee, Okla., in 1951, and managed Reamstown in the Lebanon-Lancaster League.
Harold E. Bamberger, 86, Robeson Township,
Berks County, died Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010,
at 10:58 p.m. in Reading Hospital, where he
was a patient for 12 days. He married Mary (Simenec) on Dec. 9, 1948. Born in Lebanon on Oct. 29, 1924, he was a son of the late Henry V. and Sadie (Bixler) Bamberger. Bamberger graduated from Cornwall High School in Lebanon City and went on to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years, mostly in the South Pacific during World War II. Bamberger was an outstanding athlete at Cornwall and earned letters in four sports. He played professional baseball for seven years with stops at Concord, N.C., Trenton, N.J., Minneapolis, Minn., Jersey City, N.J., Birmingham, Ala., and Jacksonville, Fla., and was called up to the New York Giants at the end of the 1948 season, where he played three games under the manager Leo Durocher. Bamberger managed a farm team in Muskogee, Okla., in 1951, and managed Reamstown in the Lebanon-Lancaster League.
Former Giants outfielder Hal Bamberger passes away
Harold E. Bamberger, 86, Robeson Township,
Berks County, died Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010,
at 10:58 p.m. in Reading Hospital, where he
was a patient for 12 days. He married Mary (Simenec) on Dec. 9, 1948. Born in Lebanon on Oct. 29, 1924, he was a son of the late Henry V. and Sadie (Bixler) Bamberger. Bamberger graduated from Cornwall High School in Lebanon City and went on to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years, mostly in the South Pacific during World War II. Bamberger was an outstanding athlete at Cornwall and earned letters in four sports. He played professional baseball for seven years with stops at Concord, N.C., Trenton, N.J., Minneapolis, Minn., Jersey City, N.J., Birmingham, Ala., and Jacksonville, Fla., and was called up to the New York Giants at the end of the 1948 season, where he played three games under the manager Leo Durocher. Bamberger managed a farm team in Muskogee, Okla., in 1951, and managed Reamstown in the Lebanon-Lancaster League.
Harold E. Bamberger, 86, Robeson Township,
Berks County, died Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010,
at 10:58 p.m. in Reading Hospital, where he
was a patient for 12 days. He married Mary (Simenec) on Dec. 9, 1948. Born in Lebanon on Oct. 29, 1924, he was a son of the late Henry V. and Sadie (Bixler) Bamberger. Bamberger graduated from Cornwall High School in Lebanon City and went on to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years, mostly in the South Pacific during World War II. Bamberger was an outstanding athlete at Cornwall and earned letters in four sports. He played professional baseball for seven years with stops at Concord, N.C., Trenton, N.J., Minneapolis, Minn., Jersey City, N.J., Birmingham, Ala., and Jacksonville, Fla., and was called up to the New York Giants at the end of the 1948 season, where he played three games under the manager Leo Durocher. Bamberger managed a farm team in Muskogee, Okla., in 1951, and managed Reamstown in the Lebanon-Lancaster League.
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