Thurman Tucker
Thurman Lowell Tucker played in Major League Baseball for nine seasons with the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians. He was nicknamed ‘Joe E. Tucker’ because of his resemblance to comedian Joe E. Brown. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his service in the Korean War. He retired from professional baseball in the 1970s and later became a baseball insurance agent in the Houston area. He died in Houston, Texas, on November 25, 2013.
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Thurman Lowell Tucker was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball for nine seasons with the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians. In 701 career games, Tucker recorded a batting average of. 255 and accumulated 24 triples, nine home runs, and 179 runs batted in. He was nicknamed ‘Joe E. Tucker’ because of his resemblance to comedian Joe E. Brown. After his retirement, he became a major league scout and insurance agent. He died in Houston, Texas, on November 25, 2013. He is buried in Texas. He had a son, Thurman Tucker Jr., who also played professional baseball. He also had a daughter, Thurwoman Tucker, who played professional Baseball. She died in Texas in 2013. She is buried at the Texas State Cemetery in Fort Worth, where she was a member of the Texas Longhorns baseball team. She also played semi-professional baseball for the Siloam Springs Travelers and the Fayetteville Bears of the Arkansas–Missouri League. Tucker also played for the Oklahoma City Indians and the Clarksdale Red Sox of the Cotton States League in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He later played minor league baseball with the Fort Worth Cats and the Abbeville A’s of the Evangeline Baseball League. In the 1950s, he was a scout for the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.
His son Thurman was a baseball player for the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros. He has also been a baseball coach for the Dallas Mavericks and the San Diego Dells. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his service in the Korean War. Tucker was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor for his actions during the war. He received the Congressional Medal of honor for his services in the Pacific Theater in 1945 and the Presidential Award for his bravery in the Battle of the Bulge in the Philippines in 1946. He retired from professional baseball in the 1970s and later became a baseball insurance agent in the Houston area. Tucker died on November 26, 2013, at the age of 98. He lived in Texas with his wife and three children. He never had any children and is survived by his wife, two daughters, and one son, who is now a high school football coach in Texas, and a son-in-law, who works as a baseball trainer in the Dallas suburb of Fort Worth. Tucker is also the grandfather of two sons, who play professional Baseball in the Texas League and the Texas City Indians of the minor league Texas League. His great-great-grandson is Texas Rangers pitcher Tom Tucker.
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