Hy Cohen
Hyman Cohen is an American former professional baseball player. He was a Major League Baseball pitcher for seven games with the Chicago Cubs in.Biography
Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York, and is Jewish. He attended Thomas Jefferson High School, and Brooklyn College.
The New York Yankees signed him as an amateur free agent in 1948.
In 1954, pitching for the Des Moines Bruins in the Western League, he was 16-6 with a league-leading 1.88 ERA, his 1.051 WHIP was 2nd in the league, he gave up only one home run in 196 innings, and his 16 wins were 7th in the league.
He was a Major League Baseball pitcher for seven games with the Chicago Cubs in.
In 1957 with the Memphis Chickasaws of the Southern Association he was 15-7 with a 2.72 ERA, his 1.163 WHIP was 5th-best in the league, and his 15 wins were 6th in the league.
Cohen was also a baseball coach and physical education teacher for Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California. He became the head coach for the Birmingham Braves teams through the 1980s. He also had an antique type store, located in Encino, California. He is an avid stamp collector.
In 1996 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
