# Mike Tresh

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{{Short description|American baseball player (1914–1966)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Mike Tresh
|image=Mike Tresh.jpg
|position=[Catcher](/source/Catcher)
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{Birth date|1914|2|23}}
|birth_place=[Hazleton, Pennsylvania](/source/Hazleton%2C_Pennsylvania), U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1966|10|4|1914|2|23}}
|death_place=[Detroit, Michigan](/source/Detroit%2C_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](/source/Batting_average_(baseball))
|stat1value=.249
|stat2label=[Home runs](/source/Home_runs)
|stat2value=2
|stat3label=[Runs batted in](/source/Runs_batted_in)
|stat3value=297 
|teams=
* [Chicago White Sox](/source/Chicago_White_Sox) ({{mlby|1938}}–{{mlby|1948}})
* [Cleveland Indians](/source/Cleveland_Indians) ({{mlby|1949}})
|highlights=
* [All-Star](/source/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game) ([1945](/source/1945_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game))
}}
'''Michael Tresh Jr''' (February 23, 1914 – October 4, 1966)<ref>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)</ref> was an American professional [baseball](/source/baseball) [catcher](/source/catcher), who played in [Major League Baseball](/source/Major_League_Baseball) (MLB) for the [Chicago White Sox](/source/Chicago_White_Sox) (1938–1948) and [Cleveland Indians](/source/Cleveland_Indians) (1949). Tresh batted and threw right-handed.<ref>Ancestry.com. ''U.S., Professional Baseball Player Profiles, 1876-2004'' [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004</ref> His son, [Tom](/source/Tom_Tresh), also played in the big leagues, from 1961 to 1969.

In a 12-season career, Tresh posted a .249 [batting average](/source/batting_average_(baseball)) with two [home run](/source/home_run)s and 297 [RBI](/source/run_batted_in) in 1027 [games played](/source/games_played). His best season was 1940, when he batted .281 with 64 RBIs, 62 [runs](/source/Run_(baseball)), and 135 [hits](/source/hit_(baseball))—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](/source/Frankie_Hayes) ([Philadelphia Phillies](/source/Philadelphia_Phillies)) and [Ray Mueller](/source/Ray_Mueller) ([Cincinnati Reds](/source/Cincinnati_Reds)), each with 155 games caught in 1944.

After having suffered from a heart attack earlier in the year,<ref>{{Cite news|date=5 Oct 1966|title=Funeral Services for Tresh's Father|page=26|work=[The Californian](/source/The_Salinas_Californian)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/520094947|access-date=8 Feb 2022}}</ref> Tresh died from cancer at the age of 52 in [Detroit](/source/Detroit), [Michigan](/source/Michigan),<ref>Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; ''Social Security Death Index, Master File''</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=5 Oct 1966|title=Rites Thursday for Mike Tresh|page=82|work=[The Minneapolis Star](/source/The_Minneapolis_Star)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/188407540|access-date=8 Feb 2022}}</ref> and is interred at Michigan Memorial Park in [Flat Rock, Michigan](/source/Flat_Rock%2C_Michigan).<ref name="retrotresh">{{cite web|title=Mike Tresh|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/T/Ptresm101.htm|work=retrosheet.org|publisher=Retrosheet, Inc|accessdate=November 19, 2010}}</ref>

==Early life==
Tresh was born in [Hazleton, Pennsylvania](/source/Hazleton%2C_Pennsylvania)<ref>National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; ''WWII Draft Registration Cards for Michigan, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947''; Record Group: ''Records of the Selective Service System, 147''; Box: ''1216''</ref> to Michael Tresh, a [Galician](/source/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe)) immigrant, and Mary, a Pennsylvania native. He grew up with three sisters; Anna, Katherine, and Margaret. In the 1920s, his family moved from Pennsylvania to [Detroit](/source/Detroit), and Michael worked as a truck driver before becoming a baseball player. <ref>Year: ''1920''; Census Place: ''Hazelton Ward 4, Luzerne, Pennsylvania''; Roll: ''T625_1593''; Page: ''2B''; Enumeration District: ''75''</ref><ref>Year: ''1930''; Census Place: ''Detroit, Wayne, Michigan''; Page: ''31A''; Enumeration District: ''0817''; FHL microfilm: ''2340799''</ref> In the late 1930s, he moved in with his wife Doris's family in [Allen Park](/source/Allen_Park%2C_Michigan), where his wife gave birth to their son, Thomas Michael Tresh.<ref>Year: ''1940''; Census Place: ''Allen Park, Wayne, Michigan''; Roll: ''m-t0627-01827''; Page: ''1B''; Enumeration District: ''82-48A''</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography|Baseball}}
*[List of second-generation Major League Baseball players](/source/List_of_second-generation_Major_League_Baseball_players)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Baseballstats|br=t/treshmi01}}
*[http://members.tripod.com/bb_catchers/catchers/tresh.htm Encyclopedia of Baseball Catchers]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060421030756/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/submit/Rosciam_Chuck7.stm Iron Men Catchers]
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