Bob Addis
| Bob Addis | ||
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Runs batted in | 47 | |
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Robert Gordon Addis (November 6, 1925 – November 15, 2016)player. The outfielder appeared in 208 Major League Baseball games over four seasons (1950–53) for three National League teams. He threw right-handed, batted left-handed, and was listed as 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and 170 pounds (77 kg).
Career
Addis was born in
Wellsville Yankees, he took 1944 and 1945 off to serve in World War II as part of the United States Marine Corps.[2] After returning from the war, he spent five more seasons in the minors for the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers
.
Breaking into the big leagues on September 1, 1950, Addis played his first game for the
MLB home run
.
Traded to the
runs batted in. The next season, he played ten games for Chicago, getting two hits and a run batted in, before being included in a massive, ten-player trade—headlined by slugger Ralph Kiner—to the Pittsburgh Pirates.[3] Addis got into four games for the Bucs, appearing in his final MLB contest June 6, 1953, in Pittsburgh. He then played through 1956 at the Triple-A level. In his 208 games in the majors, he notched 150 hits, with 22 doubles, two triples, and two homers. He drove in 47 runs and batted .281 lifetime. Defensively, he recorded a .986 fielding percentage
playing at all three outfield positions, committing only 4 errors in 1,028.1 innings in the outfield.
References
- ^ "Robert Addis' obituary". Legacy.com.
- ^ "Baseball in Wartime – Bob Addis". www.baseballinwartime.com.
- ^ "Ralph Kiner traded to Cubs". Lodi News-Sentinel. 4 June 1953. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
