Del Bissonette

First baseman / Manager / Coach

Born: September 6, 1899
Winthrop, Maine

Died: June 9, 1972 (aged 72)
Augusta, Maine

Batted: Left

Threw: Left

MLB debut

April 11, 1928, for the Brooklyn Robins

Last MLB appearance

June 4, 1933, for the Brooklyn Dodgers

MLB statistics

Batting average

.305

Home runs

Runs batted in

391

Win–loss record

25–34

Winning %

.424

Teams

As player

Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers (1928–1931, 1933)

As manager

Boston Braves (1945)

As coach

Boston Braves (1945, 1946)

Career highlights and awards

All-time leader in home runs for a player born in Maine.

Adelphia Louis Bissonette (September 6, 1899 – June 9, 1972) was an American first baseman, manager and coach in Major League Baseball.

Born in Winthrop, Maine, Bissonette attended Kents Hill School, Westbrook Seminary, the University of New Hampshire and Georgetown University before signing a professional baseball contract with Valleyfield–Cap de la Madeleine in the Class B Eastern Canada League in 1922. A left-handed batting and throwing first baseman, Bissonette was an outstanding hitter, batting .381 for York of the Class A New York–Penn League in 1925. In 1927, playing for the Buffalo Bisons, Bissonette led the top-level International League in runs (168), hits (229), doubles (46), triples (20), home runs (31), and runs batted in (167). His .367 batting average was nine points behind the IL's batting champion that season.

The following season, Bissonette joined the Brooklyn Robins — the once and future Dodgers — of the National League and continued his lusty hitting, batting .320 with 25 home runs in 155 games. That season, he became only the third Major Leaguer to be intentionally walked with the bases loaded. Although he tailed off in 1929, Bissonette rebounded in 1930 by driving in 113 runs and batting .336. In one game on April 21, 1930 Bissonette became the first known player in Major League history to hit a bases-loaded triple and a bases-loaded home run (a grand slam) in the same game, a rare feat matched only by a handful of players since. But 1930 was his last productive season as a Major League player. He suffered a tendon injury, missed the entire 1932 season with an illness, and was back in the International League by the middle of the 1933 campaign. In 604 MLB games played, over all or parts of five seasons with Brooklyn, Bissonette batted .305 with 66 homers.

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