Bruce Edwards (baseball)
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Bruce Edwards in 1946
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Born: July 15, 1923 Quincy, Illinois |
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Died: April 25, 1975 (aged 51) Sacramento, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| June 23, 1946, for the Brooklyn Dodgers | |||
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| September 13, 1956, for the Cincinnati Reds | |||
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| Batting average | .256 | ||
| Home runs | 39 | ||
| Runs batted in | 241 | ||
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Charles Bruce Edwards (July 15, 1923 – April 25, 1975) was an American professional baseball player. He played for ten seasons as a catcher in Major League Baseball from 1946 to 1952 and from 1954 to 1956, most notably for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Edwards began his professional baseball career in 1941 at the age of 17 with the Santa Barbara Saints of the California League. After serving in the United States Army during the Second World War, he returned to baseball in 1946 with the Mobile Bears of the Southern Association, where he posted a .332 batting average. In June 1946, Edwards' contract was purchased from Mobile by the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Edwards made his major league debut with the Dodgers on June 23, 1946 at the age of 22 and was installed as the Dodgers' starting catcher by manager Leo Durocher, after Mickey Owen had fled the team to join the Mexican League. He hit for a .246 batting average as the Dodgers battled the St. Louis Cardinals in a tight pennant race. The two teams ended the season tied for first place and met in the 1946 National League tie-breaker series. It was the first playoff tiebreaker in Major League Baseball history. The Cardinals won the first two games of the best-of-three game series to capture the National League pennant. Edwards finished in fourteenth place in balloting for the 1946 National League Most Valuable Player Award.
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