Bake McBride
| Bake McBride | |||
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| Right fielder / Center fielder | |||
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Born: February 3, 1949 Fulton, Missouri |
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| MLB debut | |||
| July 26, 1973, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| October 1, 1983, for the Cleveland Indians | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .299 | ||
| Hits | 1,153 | ||
| Runs batted in | 430 | ||
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Arnold Ray McBride (born February 3, 1949), nicknamed "Shake 'n Bake" and "The Callaway Kid", is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. Between 1973 and 1983, he played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies and Cleveland Indians. He had the most success with Philadelphia in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
After attending Fulton High School and Westminster College in Missouri, McBride debuted for the Cardinals in 1973. He was the 1974 National League Rookie of the Year, and he was a 1976 MLB All-Star Game selection. He was a member of the world champion 1980 Phillies team, and he hit a three-run home run in the first game of that year's World Series.
Though McBride ran with impressive speed, more than half of his 11 MLB seasons were significantly shortened due to injury or illness. He had surgeries on both of his knees during his playing career, and he missed almost all of the 1982 season with an eye infection related to his use of contact lenses. After his playing career ended, McBride was a minor league coach for the New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals.
McBride was born in Fulton, Missouri, to Arnold McBride and Wanna Robinson McBride. The elder Arnold McBride had been a pitcher for the Negro league baseball team known as the Kansas City Monarchs. Bake McBride starred in football at Fulton High School, earning all-state honors, and he also played basketball and ran track. Fulton High School did not offer a baseball program.
McBride attended Westminster College in Missouri, where he was a baseball, basketball, and track athlete. He set the school record in the 200-meter dash. McBride pitched in college, but when he attended a tryout session with the St. Louis Cardinals, personnel at the tryout were not interested in McBride's pitching. They thought his running ability held promise. McBride was selected by the Cardinals in the 37th round of the 1970 MLB draft. Though McBride left college early to enter professional baseball, he later graduated from Westminster.
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