:Nick Picciuto

{{short description|American baseball player (1921-1997)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Nick Picciuto

|image= NickPicciuto.jpg

|position=Third baseman

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{birth date|1921|8|27}}

|birth_place=Newark, New Jersey

|death_date={{death date and age|1997|1|10|1921|8|27}}

|death_place=Winchester, Virginia

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 11

|debutyear=1945

|debutteam=Philadelphia Phillies

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 30

|finalyear=1945

|finalteam=Philadelphia Phillies

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.135

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=6

|teams=

• Philadelphia Phillies ({{baseball year|1945}})

}}

Nicholas Thomas Picciuto (August 27, 1921 – January 10, 1997) was an American professional baseball player who appeared in 36 games, mainly as a third baseman, in Major League Baseball as a member of the {{mlby|1945}} Philadelphia Phillies.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/piccini01.shtml "Nick Picciuto Statistics and History"], Baseball-Reference.com. Accessed December 25, 2011. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he threw and batted right-handed and was listed as {{convert|5|ft|8|in}} tall and {{convert|175|lb}}.

Picciuto attended Michigan State University and began his pro baseball career in 1944 with the Utica Blue Sox, the Phillies' Eastern League farm club. The following season, the last year of MLB's World War II manpower shortage, he had two extended stays on the Philadelphia roster, from May 11, 1945, to June 10, and from September 12 to 30.Retrosheet: [https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1945/Ipiccn1010011945.htm 1945 PHI N Regular Season Batting Log for Nick Picciuto] He amassed 12 hits, including six doubles, in 89 at bats, batting .135 with six runs batted in. He returned to the minor leagues in 1946 and retired from baseball after the following season.

He died in Winchester, Virginia, aged 75, on January 10, 1997.