Early Life
Linde attended high school at Beaver Dam High School in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. While there, he played basketball as well as baseball, and was part of the state champion Beaver Dam High School basketball team in 1937. After graduating, he played amateur baseball in Wisconsin for several years. In a state amateur baseball tournament in 1941, Linde, representing the Beaver Dam Beavers, pitched a one-hitter to help lead his team to a 9–1 win over the representatives from Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Linde attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison on and off between 1939 and 1947.
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