Morris Arnovich (November 16, 1910 – July 20, 1959), nicknamed "Snooker", was an American baseball player.
[2][4][5] Arnovich's professional baseball career began at age 22 with the Superior Blues, the champions of the newly revived Northern League in 1933.
[2] His .918 fielding percentage was best of any shortstop with 50 or more games that season and made the unofficial All-Star team listed by the Spalding Guide.
[6] Returning to Superior in 1934, Arnovich hit .374 to take the Northern League batting title, and his 21 home runs (three in one game) tied for fifth.
[2] The Philadelphia Phillies purchased his contract in 1935, where he turned up for spring training with regulars remarking that "he'll never make it".
He got false teeth and volunteered again after Pearl Harbor in 1942; this time he was permitted in and spent the next four years in the Army.
[3] While in the Army, Arnovich played for and managed the Fort Lewis baseball team, before becoming a postal clerk in New Guinea.
[13] In 2010 he was ranked ninth in career batting average among Jewish major league baseball players of all-time.
[1][17] Arnovich gave out free baseball lessons to teenagers in Superior,[18] Arnovich would manage both the Davenport Cubs, and Selma Cloverleafs of the Cub's farm teams, and was a basketball coach at a local Catholic high school.