# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-ricketts
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:54:47.193Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-ricketts"
name: "Dick Ricketts"
slug: "dick-ricketts"
description: "Richard James Ricketts Jr. was an American professional basketball and baseball player. Ricketts was the No. 1 overall pick of the 1955 NBA draft by the St. Louis Hawks out of Duquesne University. Ricketts played professional basketball and baseball simultaneously and retired from basketball to play baseball. He pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1959 and had a 10-season pitching career. He is one of 13 athletes to play in both the NBA and MLB."
tagline: "American baseball player (1933–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dick_Ricketts_Cardinals.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1933-12-04"
deathDate: "1988-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.968109333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "迪克·里基茨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديك ريكيتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديك ريكيتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Ricketts"
    title: "Dick Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Ricketts"
    title: "Dick Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Ricketts"
    title: "Dick Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Ricketts"
    title: "Dick Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Ricketts"
    title: "Dick Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Ricketts"
    title: "Dick Ricketts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Рикеттс, Дик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1609464"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump