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Thissale is for the following 2001 Tri Star Obak signed card:
BIO:Roy Gleason Los Angeles Dodgers former professional baseball player whoappeared in eight games in Major League Baseball late in the 1963 season. He signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers in June1961. In 1963, after spending the minor-league campaign with Class A Salem ofthe Northwest League, he was recalled by the Dodgers in September when rostersexpanded to 40 players. In his eight games, Gleason was used primarily as apinch runner, although he had one official at bat on September 28, 1963. In theeighth inning of a game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Dodger Stadium,pinch hitting for pitcher Phil Ortega, Gleason, batting right-handed, hit adouble down the left-field line against left-hander Dennis Bennett andeventually scored a run. The Dodgers won the 1963 World Series, earning him aWorld Series ring, but that ring was eventually lost during his time inVietnam.
In1967, he was drafted into the United States Army and later served in theVietnam War with the 9th Infantry Division (Old Reliables) and earned a PurpleHeart when he was wounded by enemy forces while on patrol. He achieved the rankof sergeant and was also entitled to wear the Combat Infantryman Badge.
Afterhis return from Vietnam, he again played in the Dodgers\' farm system in 1969and 1970, although his war injuries had impaired his baseball skills, so he nevermade it back to the major leagues.
InSeptember 2003, he was invited to throw out the first pitch before a Dodgersgame to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his only career plate appearancewhere he was stopped by Vin Scully while walking off the field and presentedwith a new 1963 World Series championship ring by the Dodgers to replace theone he lost in Vietnam.
RoyGleason remains the only US combat veteran and former Major League Baseballplayer to receive \"Special Congressional Recognition\" for beingawarded a Purple Heart, a World Series Ring, and holding a \"perfect\"lifetime Major League batting average. He also remains the only professionalbaseball player who, after first playing in the major leagues, was drafted intothe US Army and sent to the front lines in the Vietnam War.
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