"Leja began his professional baseball career as a bonus player with the Yankees in 1954 and managed to get into only 12 games. The following year, although he had ability, the bonus rule kept him on the parent club and he was used only seven times.
With his two years of time up, he was permitted to be optioned to Richmond, Binghamton and Winston-Salem and later to New Orleans where regular play has helped him to develop into a tremendous future Yankee. Last year back with Richmond he had 23 homers.
He is now sharing first base duties with Bill Skowron and Kent Hadley, whom the Yankees acquired in a mid-winter trade from Kansas City."
-1960 Leaf No. 121
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