Les Bell
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Runs batted in | 509 | |
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Lester Rowland Bell (December 14, 1901 – December 26, 1985) was an
Boston Braves and Chicago Cubs. A native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
, he threw and batted right-handed, stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighed 165 pounds (75 kg).
Bell's professional career began in 1921 in
Baseball Hall of Famers Rogers Hornsby and Jim Bottomley
.
Then in
National League Most Valuable Player Award polling as the Cardinals won their first pennant and World Series championship. In the 1926 World Series against the New York Yankees, he played in all seven games and collected seven hits, including a two-run homer in Game 6 off Urban Shocker
that salted away a 10–2 St. Louis triumph.
In
waivers after the 1929 campaign and he was claimed by the Cubs. He played two more big-league seasons in back-up roles before he returned to the minor leagues, where he would spend eight seasons as manager of his hometown Harrisburg Senators of the Class B Interstate League
.
During his nine-year Major League career, Les Bell collected 938 hits, with 184 doubles and 49 triples accompanying his 66 home runs. He had 509 RBI in the majors.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference
- Les Bell at Find a Grave
