Mike Tresh

{{Short description|American baseball player (1914–1966)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Mike Tresh

|image=Mike Tresh.jpg

|position=Catcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1914|2|23}}

|birth_place=Hazleton, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1966|10|4|1914|2|23}}

|death_place=Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

|debutleague=MLB

|debutdate=September 4

|debutyear=1938

|debutteam=Chicago White Sox

|finalleague=MLB

|finaldate=September 25

|finalyear=1949

|finalteam=Cleveland Indians

|statleague=MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.249

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=2

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=297

|teams=

• Chicago White Sox ({{mlby|1938}}–{{mlby|1948}})
• Cleveland Indians ({{mlby|1949}})

|highlights=

• All-Star (1945)

}}

Michael Tresh Jr (February 23, 1914 – October 4, 1966)Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 7: September, 1964-August, 1967. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1968. (BioIn 7) Who's Who in Professional Baseball. By Gene Karst and Martin J. Jones, Jr. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1973. (WhoProB) was an American professional baseball catcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox (1938–1948) and Cleveland Indians (1949). Tresh batted and threw right-handed.Ancestry.com. U.S., Professional Baseball Player Profiles, 1876-2004 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004 His son, Tom, also played in the big leagues, from 1961 to 1969.

In a 12-season career, Tresh posted a .249 batting average with two home runs and 297 RBI in 1027 games played. His best season was 1940, when he batted .281 with 64 RBIs, 62 runs, and 135 hits—all career-highs. Tresh was durable enough to catch all 150 White Sox games in 1945, and is just one of three 20th century catchers to catch every one of an MLB team's games in a season. The others are Frankie Hayes (Philadelphia Phillies) and Ray Mueller (Cincinnati Reds), each with 155 games caught in 1944.

After having suffered from a heart attack earlier in the year,{{Cite news|date=5 Oct 1966|title=Funeral Services for Tresh's Father|page=26|work=The Californian|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/520094947|access-date=8 Feb 2022}} Tresh died from cancer at the age of 52 in Detroit, Michigan,Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File{{Cite news|date=5 Oct 1966|title=Rites Thursday for Mike Tresh|page=82|work=The Minneapolis Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/188407540|access-date=8 Feb 2022}} and is interred at Michigan Memorial Park in Flat Rock, Michigan.{{cite web|title=Mike Tresh|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/T/Ptresm101.htm|work=retrosheet.org|publisher=Retrosheet, Inc|accessdate=November 19, 2010}}