Buddy Hicks
American baseball player (1927-2014)
Baseball player
| Buddy Hicks | |
|---|---|
 Hicks in 1950 | |
| Infielder | |
| Born: (1927-02-15)February 15, 1927 Belvedere, California | |
| Died: December 8, 2014(2014-12-08) (aged 87) St. George, Utah | |
Batted: Switch Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | |
| April 17, 1956, for the Detroit Tigers | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| July 18, 1956, for the Detroit Tigers | |
| MLB statistics | |
| Batting average | .213 |
| Home runs | 0 |
| Runs batted in | 5 |
| Teams | |
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Clarence Walter "Buddy" Hicks (February 15, 1927 – December 8, 2014) was an American professional baseball player and manager. Primarily a shortstop during his 17-year active career (1944; 1947–62), he also played third base and first base. Hicks was a switch hitter who threw right-handed, standing 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighing 170 pounds (77 kg).
Hicks had a 26-game trial with the 1956 Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball, garnering ten hits in 47 at bats for a .213 batting average, with two doubles and five runs batted in. Defensively, he handled 52 total chances at shortstop and second base without an error for a 1.000 fielding percentage.[1][2] The rest of his career was spent in minor league baseball, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Tigers, Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves and Philadelphia Phillies organizations. In 1,854 minor league games, he batted .273 with 63 home runs.[3]
He spent a decade (1960–69) as a minor league manager, working for the Braves and Washington Senators, including all or parts of three seasons at the Double-A level.
References
- ^ Baseball Reference
- ^ Baseball Almanac
- ^ Minor league statistics from Baseball Reference
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics
