High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Franklin Judnich (January 24, 1916 - July 10, 1971) was a center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for three different teams between 1940 and 1949. Listed at 6` 1", 205 lb., Judnich batted and threw left-handed. In baseball books, he is known indistinctly as Wally or Walt Judnich. A native of San Francisco, California and graduate of Mission High School, Judnich entered the majors in 1940 with the St. Louis Browns, playing for them five years (1940–42, 1946–47) before joining the Cleveland Indians (1948) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1949).