Vada Edward Pinson Jr. (1938 - 1995)

Born 11 Aug 1938 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States of America

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Died 21 Oct 1995 at age 57 in Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States of America

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Vada Edward Pinson Jr. was a professional Major League Baseball player and coach. He was a four-time National League All-Star and was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.

Pinson was born in Memphis, Tennessee and his family moved to California when he was a child. He attended Oakland's McClymonds High School, a school attended by Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Frank Robinson (a Pinson teammate in the major leagues for nine years), star centerfielder Curt Flood, and Basketball Hall of Fame center Bill Russell. Pinson had interest in the trumpet in the school's band, to the point where he considered playing trumpet as a career, but his baseball coach George Powles convinced him otherwise, developing him into a player by cultivating his athletic ability and talent.

He played as a center fielder in Major League Baseball for 18 years, from 1958 through 1975, most notably for the Cincinnati Reds, for whom he played from 1958 to 1968 as a four-time National League All-Star. Vada led the major leagues twice in total hits, twice in doubles and twice in triples. He was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 1977. The 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 170 lb (77 kg) Pinson, who batted and threw left-handed, combined power, speed, and strong defensive ability.

• Fact: Burial (1995) El Sobrante, Contra Costa, California, United States of America
• Fact: Obituary (23 Oct 1995) Arlington, Virginia, United States

Sources

• Ancestry.com. U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find a Grave. Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 25 August 2021, 23:29), entry for Vada Edward Pinson (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LTM6-X6T ); contributed by various users.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vada_Pinson
• Baseball Reference.com page for Vada Pinson giving all his statistics. This reference may be viewed at https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pinsova01.shtml

See also: Find A Grave: Memorial #9768