Bobby Wine
Bobby Wine | |
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New York, New York, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
September 20, 1960, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |
Last MLB appearance | |
July 8, 1972, for the Montreal Expos | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .215 |
Home runs | 30 |
Runs batted in | 268 |
Managerial record | 16–25 |
Winning % | .390 |
Teams | |
As player
As manager As coach | |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Robert Paul Wine Sr. (born September 17, 1938) is an American former shortstop, coach and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). An excellent fielder who struggled as a hitter, Wine spent 12 seasons in the National League with the Philadelphia Phillies (1960; 1962–68) and the Montreal Expos (1969–72). He won the NL Gold Glove Award in 1963.[1]
Playing career
Minor leagues
Before the 1957 season, Wine was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent out of
Wine moved up to the class C
First taste of the majors
Wine played with the International League Buffalo Bisons in 1960, appearing in 154 games with 569 at bats and 153 hits for a .269 average. He recorded a .958 fielding percentage at the shortstop position. He made his major league debut that season, when the Philadelphia Phillies used him in 4 games. He picked up 2 base hits and fielded 19 total chances at shortstop without an error for a 1.000 percentage.
Back to the minors
In 1961 he was back with the Buffalo team where he hit for a .243 average and fielded at a .961 clip. He also spent time in 1962 with Buffalo, hitting .242 and fielding at a .977 percentage. This was his last minor league action, as he finished out the year with the Phillies, hitting at a .244 average and fielding .979. He played 20 games at third base in 1962 for the Philadelphia team and did not have an error.
In the majors to stay
Wine spent the next ten seasons (1963–1972) in the major leagues. Wine was with the memorable 1964 Philadelphia team, which was in first place most of the year but collapsed in the last two weeks to let the St. Louis Cardinals take the pennant on the last day of the season. He played shortstop during the late innings of Jim Bunning's perfect game against the New York Mets on Father's Day of that year. His last season with the Phillies was 1968, when a back injury limited him to 27 games.
Wine was sent to the expansion Montreal Expos at the end of spring training in 1969 as compension for pitcher Larry Jackson, who had been selected from the Phillies in the 1969 expansion draft but chose to retire rather than join the Expos.[1] At first he was the back-up to Maury Wills, but he took over when Wills was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in June 1969. Although he played in just 121 games, Wine led the league in errors with 31, and batted just .200.
In the 1970 season Bobby was 5th in the league in games played with 159 to his credit. He participated in a then-record 137 double plays in 1970.[citation needed] While his hitting was still awful, with no power to speak of, he registered his best batting average of his tenure with the Expos at .232. He also posted the best on-base percentage of his career, a paltry .287. Despite the low averages, Wine showed a prowess to hit in the clutch, driving in 51 runs.
In 1971, Wine regressed to batting numbers even worse than 1969, including a career-worst .235
Overview
Known for his strong arm, Wine rarely played enough, or enough full games, to accumulate high statistical totals. He was bothered by a bad back and missed most of the 1966 and 1968 seasons because of it.[citation needed] He had surgery for a ruptured spinal disc in 1968.[citation needed] However, he won the 1963 Gold Glove Award, led the NL in fielding in 1967, and, as mentioned above, he set a ML shortstop record with 137 double plays in 1970. That was in fact his only season with more than 420 at bats, as he had 501. His best batting average came in his rookie 1962 season, when he hit .244 in 311 at bats. His .215 lifetime average is the fourth-worst all-time with 2,500 or more at bats.[citation needed]
A jokester, "Wino" once pulled the
Coaching and managerial career
Wine became a coach almost immediately after his playing days ended. He worked with the Phillies from July 1972 through the 1983 season — an era in which the Phils rebounded from cellar-dwellers to
After the 1979 season, it was reported that Wine was considered for manager of the big league club, a job that eventually was kept by interim manager Dallas Green.[2] He remained with the Phillies as bench coach to Dallas Green and was an important factor in the Phillies winning their first ever World Series title in 1980.[citation needed] Wine stayed as bench coach until the 1983 season when manager Pat Corrales was fired at mid-season despite the team being in first place. Wine, thought by many[who?] to be the natural selection to ascend to manager, was not given the job but was in fact let go by the Phillies when general manager Paul Owens took over as manager.
He then moved to the Braves, serving as a coach in 1985. He was the interim manager of the
Personal life
Wine lives with his wife, Fran, in
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-892129-34-5.
- ^ "Phillies to select Dallas Green". The Bulletin. 1979-10-18.
- ^ "Braves Managers". MLB.com.
- ^ Chass, Murray (4 February 1997). "Umpires Pitching for Peaceful Coexistence". The New York Times.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet
- Bobby Wine managerial career statistics at Baseball-Reference.com
- Bobby Wine at SABR (Baseball BioProject)
- Bobby Wine at Baseball Almanac