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This St. Louis native climbed quickly up the Cardinal ladder. Crespi was among the top-rated second basemen in 1941, his first successful major league season. Unfortunately, an army camp accident put a sudden end to his promising career. In 1943 he broke his left leg playing army baseball, then broke it again in another place when he crashed into a wall in a wheelchair race. (EW)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » June 18, 1942: Another brawl between the Cards and the Dodgers at Ebbets Field leads to ejection and fines for Joe Medwick and Creepy Crespi. The Dodgers' NL lead is seven 1/2 games.