| Bob Elliot | ||
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| Third Baseman / Outfielder | ||
| Born: November 26, 1916 | ||
| Died: May 4, 1966 (aged 49) | ||
| Batted: Right | Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | ||
| September 2, 1939 for the Pittsburgh Pirates |
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| Final game | ||
| July 16, 1953 for the Chicago White Sox |
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| Career statistics | ||
| AVG | . A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in Baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in Baseball farthest from the batter Events 43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian" later "Caesar Augustus" Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Events 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Events 622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar. 1054 - Three Roman legates fractured relations between the Western and Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Chicago White Sox are a professional Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively 317 | |
| HR | 170 | |
| RBI | 1195 | |
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Robert Irving Elliott (November 26, 1916 - May 4, 1966) was an American third baseman and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played most of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Braves. The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Headline Event of the Year On May 17, 1939, Princeton University and Columbia University played the first televised baseball Champions Major League Baseball World Series: St Louis Cardinals over Boston Red Sox (4-3 All-Star Game Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-3 All-Star Game Headline Event of the Year Baseball's Shot Heard 'Round the World gives the New York Giants the National League Pennant in the third game of a best-of-three-games The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in, that currently play in the National League West Division. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-3 All-Star Game The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-2 All-Star Game The Chicago White Sox are a professional Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-2 All-Star Game The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates over New York Yankees (4-3 Bobby Richardson, Events 43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian" later "Caesar Augustus" Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in Baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of Position description Outfielders must cover large distances so speed instincts and quickness to react to the ball are key The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He contributed some of the happiest memories to the Braves' final Boston years, winning the 1947 National League Most Valuable Player Award and earning the nickname "Mr. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-3 All-Star Game The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League ( NL) is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball The Most Valuable Player Award (commonly known as the MVP award is an annual award given to one outstanding player in each league of Major League Baseball. Team. " The following season, his power hitting helped lift Boston to its second NL pennant since 1901, the team's last before relocating to Milwaukee. He was the second major league third baseman to have five seasons of 100 runs batted in, joining Pie Traynor, and retired with the highest career slugging average (. Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor ( November 11, 1898 - March 16, 1972) was a Professional baseball Third baseman who In Baseball statistics, slugging percentage (abbreviated SLG) is a popular measure of the power of a hitter. 440) of any NL third baseman. He also led the league in assists three times and in putouts and double plays twice each, and ended his career among the NL leaders in games (8th, 1262), assists (7th, 2547), total chances (10th, 4113) and double plays (4th, 231) at third base. In Baseball, an assist (denoted by A) is a defensive statistic baseball being the rare sport in which the In Baseball statistics, a putout (denoted by PO or fly ball when appropriate is given to a defensive player who records an out by one of the This article is about Baseball. For double play Magnetic tape, see Audio tape length and thickness. In Baseball statistics, total chances ( TC) also called chances offered, represents the number of plays in which a defensive player has participated
Born in San Francisco, California, Elliott came to the major leagues with the Pirates as an outfielder in 1939. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Headline Event of the Year On May 17, 1939, Princeton University and Columbia University played the first televised baseball As a righthanded batter (and thrower), his power hitting was hampered by the spacious left field at Forbes Field, but in eight years with the team he compiled more than 100 RBI three times, and he batted . Forbes Field was a Baseball park in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania from 1909 to 1971 Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively 315 in 1943. Manager Frankie Frisch shifted him to third base after the 1941 season, seeking to take advantage of his strong arm while compensating for his lack of speed. Francis "Frankie" Frisch ( September 9, 1898 — March 12, 1973) nicknamed the Fordham Flash, or The Old Flash Exempted from World War II military service due to head injuries from being hit by a pitch in 1943, Elliott was named to the NL All-Star team in 1941, 1942, 1944 and 1945, and finished among the top ten players in the MVP voting from 1942 through 1944, placing second in the league in RBI the last two years. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the "Midsummer Classic" is an annual Baseball game between players from the National League On July 15, 1945, he hit for the cycle. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final Champions Major League Baseball World Series: Detroit Tigers over Chicago Cubs (4-3 All-Star Game In Baseball, a player hits for the cycle when he hits a single, a double, a triple and a Home run in the same game though not necessarily After the 1946 season, he was traded to the Braves in a lopsided deal for 37-year-old second baseman Billy Herman, who played only 15 more major league games but became the team's manager, and three other players who made a total of 127 appearances with the Pirates. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: St Louis Cardinals over Boston Red Sox (4-3 All-Star Game Second base, or 2B, is the second of four stations on a Baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a base runner in order to score a run for that William Jennings Bryan "Billy" Herman ( July 7 1909 - September 5 1992) was an American Second baseman in
With a friendlier hitting environment at Braves Field, Elliott exceeded the 20 home run mark three times in his five years in Boston, equalling Whitey Kurowski for the most 20-HR seasons by an NL third baseman. Braves Field was a Baseball park that formerly stood on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston Massachusetts. George John Kurowski ( April 19, 1918 - December 9, 1999) was a Third baseman in Major League Baseball who played his entire In his 1947 MVP campaign, Elliott did not lead the NL in any offensive category; however, he batted . 317 (second in the NL), with 22 home runs and 117 runs batted in, all team highs. In 1948, when the Braves won the pennant, Elliott batted . Champions Major League Baseball World Series: Cleveland Indians over Boston Braves (4-2 All-Star Game 283 with 23 homers and 100 RBI and made his sixth All-Star team. He also led the major leagues with 131 walks, breaking the club record of 110 set by Billy Hamilton in 1896; it remains the franchise record. A base on balls ( BB) is credited to a batter and against a pitcher in Baseball statistics when a batter receives four pitches that the umpire William Robert "Sliding Billy" Hamilton (b February 16, 1866, d Champions Temple Cup: Baltimore Orioles defeated Cleveland Spiders, 4 games to 0 National League: Baltimore Batting cleanup, he hit . 333 in the 1948 World Series, which Boston lost in six games to the Cleveland Indians; he had a pair of home runs in his first two at bats in Game 5, an 11-5 victory, and was 3 for 3 with a walk in the final 4-3 loss in Game 6. The 1948 World Series matched the Cleveland Indians against the Boston Braves. The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. In Baseball, an at bat ( AB) or time at bat is used to calculate certain statistics, including Batting average, On base
Although his numbers declined somewhat thereafter, Elliott enjoyed productive years from 1949 through 1951, including a season batting . 305 with 24 HRs and 107 RBI in 1950, his sixth 100-RBI campaign. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Philadelphia Phillies (4-0 All-Star He was named to his last All-Star squad in 1951, his final year with Boston. By the early 1950s he had broken Kurowski's NL record for career home runs at third base, though Eddie Mathews surpassed him within a few seasons. Edwin Lee "Eddie" Mathews ( October 13 1931 – February 18 2001) was a Hall of Fame Third baseman in Major His playing career began to wind down in 1952, as he struggled with the New York Giants following an April trade, and ended after a 1953 campaign split between the St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox. The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in, that currently play in the National League West Division. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-2 All-Star Game The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. The Chicago White Sox are a professional Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. Over 15 years (1939-53) and 1,978 games, Elliott batted . 289 and collected 2,061 hits, 170 home runs, 382 doubles, 1,064 runs and 1,195 RBI. In Baseball statistics, a hit (denoted by H) sometimes called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches In Baseball, a double is the act of a batter striking the pitched ball and safely reaching Second base without being called out by the Umpire In Baseball, a run is scored when a player advances safely around first second and third base and returns safely to Home plate, touching Elliott's last highlight was 2 home runs on opening day for the N. Y. Giants in 1952. His final major league game occurred on September 16, 1953 for the Chicago White Sox.
Elliott then returned to California and became a manager in the Pacific Coast League, with the San Diego Padres (1955-57) and the Sacramento Solons (1959). The Pacific Coast League (PCL is a Minor league baseball league operating in the West and Midwest of the United States. The San Diego Padres were a Minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast League from 1936 through 1968 The Sacramento Solons were a Minor league baseball team based in Sacramento California. After a third-place finish in Sacramento, Elliott received his only major league managing opportunity when he took over the Kansas City Athletics for the 1960 season. The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates over New York Yankees (4-3 Bobby Richardson, It was bad timing; the A's were one of the weakest teams in the American League, and the team's owner, Arnold Johnson, died suddenly just before the season began. The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League ( AL) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in Arnold Johnson was also the name of an actor Arnold M Johnson (1906 - 1960 was an American industrialist father businessman and sportsman The A's won only 58 games while losing 96 (. 377) in Elliott's only season at the helm. He was fired by new owner Charles O. Finley at season's end, and replaced by Joe Gordon. Charles Oscar Finley ( February 22 1918 - February 19 1996) nicknamed Charlie O or Charley O, was an American Joseph Lowell Gordon ( February 18 1915 &ndash April 14, 1978) nicknamed "Flash" in reference to the comic-book character In 1961, Elliott was a coach for the expansion Los Angeles Angels during their maiden AL campaign. Headline Event of the Year Roger Maris hits 61 home runs breaking Babe Ruth 's record The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California.
Less than five years later, Elliott died at age 49 in San Diego after suffering a ruptured vein in his windpipe.
See also
- List of major league players with 2,000 hits
- Top 500 home run hitters of all time
- List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 runs
- List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 RBI
- Hitting for the cycle
- Major League Baseball hitters with three home runs in one game
- Chicago White Sox all-time roster
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
- Baseball Evolution Hall of Fame - Player Profile
- Bob Elliott (baseball) at Find A Grave
| Preceded by Harry Craft |
Kansas City Athletics Manager 1960 |
Succeeded by Joe Gordon |