From 1916 to 1930, he was head baseball coach at the University of California
at Berkeley. The Bears under his leadership between 1925 and 1931 won 34 games
with only 17 losses and 7 ties.
Carl Eugene Zamloch was born in Oakland, California on October 6, 1889. He pitched for the Detroit Tigers in 1913, and was a teammate of Ty Cobb. At 6' 1", 176 lbs., the right-hander chalked up a 1-6 record, with an ERA of 2.45, and batted .182 in 22 times at bat.
From 1916 to 1930, he was head baseball coach at the University of California
at Berkeley. The Bears under his leadership between 1925 and 1931 won 34 games
with only 17 losses and 7 ties.
In 1929, when Victor "Cookie" Devincenzi and A. Robert Miller acquired the Oakland Oaks, Zamloch was made a minor partner. Later he was named manager as well. In 1932, because of the Depression the directors of the team abolished the salaries of all officers. Since Zamloch was an officer as well as manager, the club stopped payments on his $10,000 salary. He filed suit to recover the unpaid balance of his salary and won, but did not return in 1933.
Between
baseball seasons, he toured the United States and other countries as a magician.
His father was Anton F. Zamloch, who married Mary Marks in San Francisco in
1877, and was one of the world's outstanding magicians at the turn of the 20th
Century.
Under the pseudonym of The Great Zam, Carl Zamloch published "17 Simple
but Mystifying Tricks to Entertain your Friends." In his later years, he
worked as a sales executive and legislative consultant for the Signal Oil and
Gas Company. He died of a stroke at the age of 73 in Santa Barbara, California
in 1963.