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Fury Gene Tenace (/ ˈ t ɛ n ɪ s /; born Fiore Gino Tenacci; October 10, 1946), better known as Gene Tenace, is an American former professional baseball player and coach.
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Jun 2, 2022 · Gene Tenace, the A’s catcher who wound up under FBI protection during his torrid 1972 World Series, says the danger surfaced on the day of Game 2, and scattered media reports over the years jibe...
Sep 14, 2015 · Catcher Gene Tenace was penciled into the seventh spot in the batting order in Game One at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium. Tenace, despite having got just one hit in the League Championship Series against Detroit, felt that he was seeing the ball very well.
Gene Tenace Bio. Fullname: Fury Gene Tenace; Born: 10/10/1946 in Russellton, PA; Draft: 1965, Kansas City Athletics, Round: 20, Overall Pick: 399; High School: Valley, Lucasville, OH; Debut: 5/29/1969
Fury Gene Tenace, better known as Gene Tenace, is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played as a catcher and first baseman in Major League Baseball from 1969 through 1983, most notably as a member of the Oakland Athletics dynasty that won three consecutive World Series championships between 1972 and 1974.
Gene Tenace was a backup catcher up to that point in his career, but ended up going 8-for-23 in the 1972 World Series, with four home runs, 9 RBI, and a World Series Most Valuable Player Award. The following season, Tenace was still a reserve catcher (33 games), but also the starting first baseman.
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Gene Tenace was one of the top catchers of his era, though perhaps a bit under appreciated in his time despite being a postseason star for one of the most accomplished teams in baseball history, the early 1970s Oakland A's.
