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While Bocek was a student at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], he became a fairly prominent summer amateur and semipro player in baseball and softball.<ref name="ap obit" /> [[Chicago White Sox]] manager [[Lew Fonseca]] noticed him and arranged a tryout at [[Comiskey Park]], during which Bocek hit several balls into the upper deck.<ref name="ap obit" /> He signed with the White Sox in the second half of 1933, becoming the fifth-youngest player in Major League Baseball that season, and then spent the first part of the 1934 season with the team as well. Subsequently, he played several years in the minor league systems of the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] and the [[New York Yankees]].
 
During his playing career, he had an official heights of 6'1", and an official weight of 185 pounds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historicbaseball.com/players/b/bocek_milt.html/| title= Milt Bocek |publisher= Historic Baseball |accessdate= November 21, 2012}}</ref>
 
==After MLB==