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right-handed pitcher played for the Red Sox as well as the
Boston/Milwaukee Braves and Philadelphia Phillies during his 11
seasons from 1952 to 1963.
It was with the Braves that the three-time All Star won the
World Series in 1957.
The 6ft 8in (2.03m) Conley, who had put basketball on hold for
much of the mid-1950s while he concentrated on baseball,
returned to hoops during the 1958-59 season and won the first of
three consecutive NBA championships with the Boston Celtics.
After his retirement from sport, Conley and his wife, Katie,
lived in Foxboro, Massachusetts, where they established the
Foxboro Paper Company. They had three children and seven
grandchildren.
(Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles, editing by Nick
Mulvenney)
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