After batting .301 with 85 RBIs in 144 games for the Portland club of the Pacific Coast League, while leading PCL catchers in fielding, Charlie enjoyed an outstanding late-season debut with the Yankees. The San Francisco native went 3-for-4 in his first game and 8-for-14 in four games. Charlie followed a .315 average in 58 games in 1949 with a start in Game 2 of that year's World Series.
Starting his pro career with the Yankees' Wellsville farm team in the PONY League in 1942, Charlie served in the Army Air Forces the next three years. He joined the Yanks' Kansas City club in 1946.
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