Bobby Valentine
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Valentine in 2017
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| Utility player / Manager | |||
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Born: May 13, 1950 Stamford, Connecticut |
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| debut | |||
| September 2, 1969, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
| Last appearance | |||
| September 30, 1979, for the Seattle Mariners | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .260 | ||
| Home runs | 12 | ||
| Runs batted in | 157 | ||
| Games managed | 2,351 | ||
| Win–loss record | 1,186–1,165 | ||
| Winning % | .504 | ||
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| Games managed | 966 | ||
| Win–loss record | 493–450 | ||
| Winning % | .523 | ||
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Robert John Valentine (born May 13, 1950), nicknamed "Bobby V", is a former American professional baseball player and manager. He is currently the athletic director at Sacred Heart University. Valentine played for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1969, 1971–72), California Angels (1973–75), New York Mets (1977–78), and Seattle Mariners (1979) in MLB. He managed the Texas Rangers (1985–92), the New York Mets (1996–2002), and the Boston Red Sox (2012) of MLB, as well as the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (1995, 2004–09).
Valentine has also served as the Director of Public Safety & Health for the city of Stamford, Connecticut and an analyst for ESPN Sunday Night Baseball. In February 2013, CBSSports.com hired Bobby Valentine to represent its Fantasy Sports business, including running a viral marketing campaign in which he made fun of the many times he was fired in his career and gave fans a chance to "Hire or Fire Bobby V" one more time.
Valentine was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to Joseph and Grace Valentine. Valentine was recruited out of Rippowam High School in Stamford, Connecticut by the University of Nebraska, Duke University, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Southern California as a star in football and baseball. He attended USC where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. The Los Angeles Dodgers drafted him number five overall in the 1968 Major League Baseball draft.
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