Carl Husta

Carl Husta
Shortstop
Born: (1902-04-08)April 8, 1902
Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, U.S.
Died: November 6, 1951(1951-11-06) (aged 49)
Kingston, New York, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 24, 1925, for the Philadelphia Athletics
Last MLB appearance
October 3, 1925, for the Philadelphia Athletics
MLB statistics
Batting average.136
Home runs0
Runs batted in2
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Teams

Carl Lawrence Husta (April 8, 1902 – November 6, 1951) was an American baseball and basketball player. He was one of the top basketball players of the 1920s and 30s, playing for the Cleveland Rosenblums, Fort Wayne Hoosiers, Camden Brewers, Boston Trojans, Kingston Colonials, and Troy Celtics of the American Basketball League and the independent Toledo Red Man Tobaccos and Original Celtics. Nicknamed "Sox", he was also an infielder for Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics during the 1925 season. He died in Kingston, New York, in 1951. Despite his low scoring averages, Husta would also be considered [by whom?] the leading scorer of the original ABL's existence with 2,194 total points scored (albeit barely being ahead of Cas Ostrowski, Bennie Borgmann, and Phil Rabin there) due in part to him playing in both the original era and its revived era at the time.

References

  1. ↑ "Carl Husta". Pro Basketball Encyclopedia. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Carl Husta". Basketball Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Carl L. Husta". Daily Freeman. Kingston, New York. November 7, 1951. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Steve Dimitry's Early ABL Web Site". www.geocities.com. Archived from the original on July 30, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2022.