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class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">.249</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">Home runs</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">76</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Run_batted_in" title="Run batted in">Run batted in</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">276</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;"><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bilkost01.shtml">Stats</a> at <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Reference" title="Baseball Reference">Baseball Reference</a></b> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7611958#P1825" title="Edit this 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League Baseball season">1949</a>–<a href="/wiki/1954_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1954 Major League Baseball season">1954</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> (<a href="/wiki/1954_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1954 Major League Baseball season">1954</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Redlegs" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati Redlegs">Cincinnati Redlegs</a> (<a href="/wiki/1958_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1958 Major League Baseball season">1958</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> (<a href="/wiki/1958_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1958 Major League Baseball season">1958</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> (<a href="/wiki/1960_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1960 Major League Baseball season">1960</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Angels" title="Los Angeles Angels">Los Angeles Angels</a> (<a href="/wiki/1961_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1961 Major League Baseball season">1961</a>–<a href="/wiki/1962_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1962 Major League Baseball season">1962</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Stephen Thomas Bilko</b> (November 13, 1928 – March 7, 1978) was an American <a href="/wiki/Professional_baseball" title="Professional baseball">professional baseball</a> <a href="/wiki/Baseball_player" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball player">player</a> known for his <a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">home run</a> hitting as a <a href="/wiki/Minor_League_Baseball" title="Minor League Baseball">minor leaguer</a> during the 1950s. He was 20 years old when he broke into <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> on September 22, 1949, with the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a>. Bilko threw and batted right-handed; he was listed as 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall, and 230 lb (100 kg), and was nicknamed "Stout Steve" during his career because of his ample girth. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Nat_Hiken" title="Nat Hiken">Nat Hiken</a>, creator of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Phil_Silvers_Show" title="The Phil Silvers Show">The Phil Silvers Show</a></i>, supposedly took the name of the character <a href="/wiki/Sgt._Bilko" title="Sgt. Bilko">Sgt. Bilko</a> from the ballplayer, whose long-ball heroics for one of <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>' two minor-league teams of the mid-1950s made him a local celebrity.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Bilko&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bilko was born in <a href="/wiki/Nanticoke,_Pennsylvania" title="Nanticoke, Pennsylvania">Nanticoke, Pennsylvania</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Coal_mining" title="Coal mining">coal mining</a> country, and made his debut with the <a href="/wiki/Allentown_Cardinals" title="Allentown Cardinals">Allentown Cardinals</a> in 1945 at the age of 16 during the final year of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/First_baseman" title="First baseman">first baseman</a>, Bilko enjoyed his greatest fame with the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Angels_(PCL)" title="Los Angeles Angels (PCL)">Los Angeles Angels</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Coast_League" title="Pacific Coast League">Pacific Coast League</a> from 1955–1957, when he won three consecutive PCL Most Valuable Player awards and home run titles. His greatest year came in 1956, when he won the PCL <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Triple_Crown" class="mw-redirect" title="Major League Baseball Triple Crown">Triple Crown</a> with a .360 <a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">batting average</a>, 55 home runs and 164 <a href="/wiki/Runs_batted_in" class="mw-redirect" title="Runs batted in">runs batted in</a>; he also led the league in <a href="/wiki/Runs_scored" class="mw-redirect" title="Runs scored">runs scored</a> (163) and <a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">hits</a> (215). His Triple Crown year came for a pennant-winning Angels' team that won 107 games, and was sandwiched in between seasons in which Bilko belted 37 (1955) and 56 (1957) long balls. He was posthumously inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Coast_League_Hall_of_Fame" title="Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame">Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame</a> in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to the Cardinals (<a href="/wiki/1949_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1949 Major League Baseball season">1949</a>–<a href="/wiki/1954_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1954 Major League Baseball season">1954</a>), Bilko also appeared in the majors for the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> (1954), <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Redlegs" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati Redlegs">Cincinnati Redlegs</a> (<a href="/wiki/1958_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1958 Major League Baseball season">1958</a>), <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> (1958), <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> (<a href="/wiki/1960_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1960 Major League Baseball season">1960</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Angels" title="Los Angeles Angels">Los Angeles Angels</a> (<a href="/wiki/1961_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1961 Major League Baseball season">1961</a>–<a href="/wiki/1962_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1962 Major League Baseball season">1962</a>), but he never enjoyed the phenomenal success he had with the PCL Angels in the 1950s. He was the Cardinals' regular first baseman in <a href="/wiki/1953_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1953 Major League Baseball season">1953</a> and smashed 21 homers with 84 RBI in 154 games, but led <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> hitters in <a href="/wiki/Strikeout" title="Strikeout">strikeouts</a> with 125. Still, it was his most productive big-league season. As an original member of the American League Angels, an <a href="/wiki/Expansion_team" title="Expansion team">expansion team</a>, he became the first player to appear for each of Los Angeles' MLB teams.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Playing in his old minor-league haven, Los Angeles' <a href="/wiki/Wrigley_Field_(Los_Angeles)" title="Wrigley Field (Los Angeles)">Wrigley Field</a>, Bilko responded with his second-best MLB campaign with 20 homers and 59 RBI in 1961. </p><p>In 600 games over ten major-league seasons, Bilko posted a .249 <a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">batting average</a> (432-for-1,738) with 220 <a href="/wiki/Run_(baseball)" title="Run (baseball)">runs</a>, 76 <a href="/wiki/Home_runs" class="mw-redirect" title="Home runs">home runs</a>, 276 <a href="/wiki/Run_batted_in" title="Run batted in">RBI</a>, 234 <a href="/wiki/Bases_on_balls" class="mw-redirect" title="Bases on balls">bases on balls</a> and a .444 <a href="/wiki/Slugging_percentage" title="Slugging percentage">slugging percentage</a>. Defensively, he recorded a .992 <a href="/wiki/Fielding_percentage" title="Fielding percentage">fielding percentage</a> as a first baseman. </p><p>During his stay with the 1954 Cubs, announcer <a href="/wiki/Bert_Wilson_(broadcaster)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bert Wilson (broadcaster)">Bert Wilson</a> placed Bilko at the end of what he hoped would be a soon-to-be-famous double play combination of <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Banks" title="Ernie Banks">Ernie Banks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gene_Baker" title="Gene Baker">Gene Baker</a> and Bilko. His fanciful name for that trio was "Bingo to Bango to Bilko". However, Bilko got into only 47 games with the Wrigleys (only 22 of them at first base) before he was sent at season's end to the PCL Angels, the Cubs' top minor league affiliate, where he would become a legend. </p><p>Bilko was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Reliquary" title="Baseball Reliquary">Baseball Reliquary</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Reliquary#Shrine_of_the_Eternals" title="Baseball Reliquary">Shrine of the Eternals</a> in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-BRSOTE_Inductees_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BRSOTE_Inductees-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Bilko&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His granddaughter, Barbara 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Ballantine Books. 2003. p. 934. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-345-45542-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-345-45542-8"><bdi>0-345-45542-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Complete+Directory+to+Prime+Time+Network+and+Cable+TV+Shows%2C+1946-Present&rft.pages=934&rft.pub=Ballantine+Books&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-345-45542-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASteve+Bilko" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCorbett" class="citation web cs1">Corbett, Warren. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/steve-bilko/">"Steve Bilko"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Society_for_American_Baseball_Research" title="Society for American Baseball Research">Society for American Baseball Research</a> Biography Project<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Phillips</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1955: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bilko</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1956: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bilko</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1957: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bilko</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1958: <a href="/wiki/Earl_Averill_Jr." title="Earl Averill Jr.">Averill</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1959: <a href="/wiki/Dick_Hall_(baseball)" title="Dick Hall (baseball)">Hall</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1960: <a href="/wiki/Willie_Davis_(baseball)" title="Willie Davis (baseball)">Davis</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1961: <a href="/wiki/Dick_Phillips" title="Dick Phillips">D. Phillips</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1962: <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Gonder" title="Jesse Gonder">Gonder</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1963: <a href="/wiki/Billy_Cowan" title="Billy Cowan">Cowan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1964: <a href="/wiki/Tony_P%C3%A9rez" title="Tony Pérez">Pérez</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1965: <a href="/wiki/Dave_Roberts_(first_baseman)" title="Dave Roberts (first baseman)">Roberts</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1966: <a href="/wiki/Duane_Josephson" title="Duane Josephson">Josephson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1967: <a href="/wiki/Rick_Joseph" title="Rick Joseph">Joseph</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1968: <a href="/wiki/Jim_Hicks" title="Jim Hicks">Hicks</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1969: <a href="/wiki/Denny_Doyle" title="Denny Doyle">Doyle</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1970: <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Valentine" title="Bobby Valentine">Valentine</a></span></li> 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Kittle">Kittle</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/wiki/Kevin_McReynolds" title="Kevin McReynolds">McReynolds</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/wiki/Alejandro_S%C3%A1nchez_(baseball)" title="Alejandro Sánchez (baseball)">Sánchez</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/wiki/Danny_Tartabull" title="Danny Tartabull">Tartabull</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Tim_Pyznarski" title="Tim Pyznarski">Pyznarski</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a href="/wiki/Mike_Campbell_(pitcher)" title="Mike Campbell (pitcher)">Campbell</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Alomar_Jr." title="Sandy Alomar Jr.">Alomar</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Alomar_Jr." title="Sandy Alomar Jr.">Alomar</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Offerman" title="José Offerman">Offerman</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Tino_Martinez" title="Tino Martinez">Martinez</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Tim_Salmon" title="Tim Salmon">Salmon</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/James_Mouton" title="James Mouton">Mouton</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/Billy_Ashley" title="Billy Ashley">Ashley</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/Donne_Wall" title="Donne Wall">Wall</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/Steve_Mintz" title="Steve Mintz">Mintz</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1997: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Konerko" title="Paul Konerko">Konerko</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1998: <a href="/wiki/Chris_Hatcher_(outfielder)" title="Chris Hatcher (outfielder)">Hatcher</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1999: <a href="/wiki/Calvin_Murray" title="Calvin Murray">Murray</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2000: <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortiz_(second_baseman)" title="José Ortiz (second baseman)">Ortiz</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2001: <a href="/wiki/Phil_Hiatt" title="Phil Hiatt">Hiatt</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2002: <a href="/wiki/Robb_Quinlan" title="Robb Quinlan">Quinlan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2003: <a href="/wiki/Graham_Koonce" title="Graham Koonce">Koonce</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2004: <a href="/wiki/Dan_Johnson_(baseball)" title="Dan Johnson (baseball)">Johnson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2005: <a href="/wiki/Andy_Green_(baseball)" title="Andy Green (baseball)">Green</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2006: <a href="/wiki/Scott_McClain" title="Scott McClain">McClain</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2007: <a href="/wiki/Geovany_Soto" title="Geovany Soto">Soto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2008: <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Cruz" title="Nelson Cruz">Cruz</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2009: <a href="/wiki/Randy_Ruiz" title="Randy Ruiz">Ruiz</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2010: <a href="/wiki/J._P._Arencibia" title="J. P. Arencibia">Arencibia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2011: <a href="/wiki/Bryan_LaHair" title="Bryan LaHair">LaHair</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2012: <a href="/wiki/Adam_Eaton_(outfielder)" title="Adam Eaton (outfielder)">Eaton</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2013: <a href="/wiki/Chris_Owings" title="Chris Owings">Owings</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2014: <a href="/wiki/Joc_Pederson" title="Joc Pederson">Pederson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2015: <a href="/wiki/Matt_Duffy_(baseball,_born_1989)" title="Matt Duffy (baseball, born 1989)">Duffy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2016: <a href="/wiki/Hunter_Renfroe" title="Hunter Renfroe">Renfroe</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2017: <a href="/wiki/Christian_Walker" title="Christian Walker">Walker</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2018: <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Fuentes" title="Joshua Fuentes">Fuentes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2019: <a href="/wiki/Ty_France" title="Ty France">France</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2020: <i>none</i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2021: <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Marmolejos" title="José Marmolejos">Marmolejos</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2022: <a href="/wiki/David_Villar" title="David Villar">Villar</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2023: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Busch_(baseball)" title="Michael Busch (baseball)">Busch</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2024: <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Del_Castillo" title="Adrian Del Castillo">Del Castillo</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="The_Sporting_News_Minor_League_Player_of_the_Year_Award" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks 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href="/wiki/Lou_Novikoff" title="Lou Novikoff">Novikoff</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1940: <a href="/wiki/Phil_Rizzuto" title="Phil Rizzuto">Rizzuto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1941: <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Lindell" title="Johnny Lindell">Lindell</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1942: <a href="/wiki/Dick_Barrett_(baseball)" title="Dick Barrett (baseball)">Barrett</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1943: <a href="/wiki/Chet_Covington" title="Chet Covington">Covington</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1944: <a href="/wiki/Ripper_Collins_(baseball)" title="Ripper Collins (baseball)">Collins</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1945: <a href="/wiki/Gil_Coan" title="Gil Coan">Coan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1946: <a href="/wiki/Sibby_Sisti" title="Sibby Sisti">Sisti</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1947: <a href="/wiki/Hank_Sauer" title="Hank Sauer">Sauer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1948: <a 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