Albert Brancato was a shortstop

Shortstop

Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the...

 and third baseman in Major League Baseball

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 who played for the Philadelphia Athletics

Oakland Athletics

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 from 1939–1941 and 1945. His career in the Majors was interrupted by military service in the US Navy during the second World War. Brancato served in the Pacific Theater and played on the Navy's all-star baseball team composed of the American and National League players in military service. While entertaining the troops at the Army and Navy all-star games Brancato appeared alongside Joe Dimaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Bill Dickey, Tom Ferrick, Bob Feller, and Eddie Collins Jr.