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Clifford Carlton Cravath ( March 23, 1881 - May 23, 1963), also nicknamed "Cactus Gravy", was an outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox (1908), Chicago White Sox (1909), Washington Senators (1909) and Philadelphia Phillies (1912-1920).
Cravath was the first baseball player from the San Diego area to play Major League Baseball. He was born in Escondido, California. He is regarded as one of the first great sluggers in the game.
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Cravath was a career .287 hitter with 119 home runs and 719 RBI in 1220 games. After retiring, he became the Justice of Peace in Laguna Beach, CaliforniaLaguna Beach is a city located in southern Orange County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 23,727. It is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area of Southern California. The city's most famous institution is the Festival o, where he died at age of 82.
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