About George Altman
George Lee Altman (March 20, 1933 – November 24, 2025) was an American professional baseball outfielder who had a lengthy career in both Major League Baseball (MLB) and Nippon Professional Baseball. A three-time National League (NL) All-Star, he appeared in 991 games over nine full seasons in the major leagues. Then, at age 35, he began an eight-year tenure in Japanese baseball, where he would hit 205 home runs and bat.309 with 985 hits. Altman batted left-handed and threw right-handed; he was listed as 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall and 200 pounds (91 kg). == Early life and college == Altman was born on March 20, 1933, in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Altman's mother died when he was four years old. He attended Dillard High School in Goldsboro, where he was captain of the school's basketball team (1950–51), and was a sharpshooting center. He worked in tobacco fields as a youth. As a high school sophomore Altman decided to get serious about his studies so he could go to college, and not be limited to a future of either working in the tobacco fields or a factory in his hometown. An assistant athletics coach at Altman's high school recommended he attend Tennessee State University (then known as Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial College), a historically black college (HBCU) in Nashville, where he played baseball and basketball, graduating with honors in 1955.
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