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Babe Barna

Babe Barna

American baseball player (1915-1972)

Herbert Paul "Babe" Barna (March 2, 1915 – May 18, 1972) was a left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1937–1938), New York Giants (1941–1943) and Boston Red Sox (1943). Barna batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and attended West Virginia University, where he played football, basketball and college baseball for the Mountaineers from 1935–1937.[1] He was drafted in the seventh round of the 1937 NFL Draft.[2]

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In a five-season career, Barna was a .232 hitter with 12 home runs and 96 RBI in 207 games played. His best season statistically was 1942, when he posted 85 hits, seven triples, six home runs, 39 runs, 58 RBI, 104 games – all career-highs. He was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.

Barna died in Charleston, West Virginia, at the age of 57.

References

  1. [1]
    "West Virginia University Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues". Baseball-Almanac.com. Archived from the original on 2004-04-06. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
  2. [2]
    "1937 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2023-03-21.


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