"Bloomfield Player Signed By Yankees", The Morning Call, June 6, 1938. Accessed May 2, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Don Savage, captain and crack shortstop of the Bloomfield High school baseball team, has been signed by the New York Yankees and will report June 15 to Butler, Pa., the Yankee farm club in the Pennsylvania State League. Savage has been granted special school leave for his trial in organized baseball."
via Associated Press. "Ex-Yankee Don Savage Dies at 42", Courier News, December 27, 1961. Accessed May 2, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Sacred Heart Church, Bloomfield, for Donald A. Savage, a former Major League base ball player with the New York Yankees. Savage, who played with the Yankees during the wartime years of 1944 and 1945, died Monday night at Mountainside Hospital after a long illness. He was 42."
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Lamb, Bill. "Don Savage, Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed May 2, 2021. "Donald Anthony Savage was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, on March 5, 1919.... Don Savage first came to attention on the gridiron, playing halfback for Bloomfield High School, a New Jersey schoolboy powerhouse in the 1930s.... Despite a second knee injury suffered while playing short during his senior year, Savage received numerous college scholarship offers upon his high-school graduation in June 1937."
