Gene Lamont
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Lamont in June 2013
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| Detroit Tigers – No. 22 | |||
| Catcher/Manager/Bench coach | |||
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Born: December 25, 1946 Rockford, Illinois |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 2, 1970, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| May 24, 1975, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .233 | ||
| Home runs | 4 | ||
| Games managed | 1,115 | ||
| Win–loss record | 553–562 | ||
| Winning percentage | .496 | ||
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As player
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Gene William Lamont (born December 25, 1946) is a former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball who managed the Chicago White Sox (1992–1995) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1997–2000). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Lamont is currently the bench coach for the Detroit Tigers.
Lamont was a Chicago Cubs fan all his life, growing up in Kirkland, Illinois and attending Western Illinois University. He was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the 1st round, as the 13th pick, of the 1965 amateur draft, and came up with them as a September call-up in 1970, when he had 13 hits in 44 at bats. The following year, he had only 15 at-bats and only 1 hit. In his biggest year, he had 92 at-bats, playing as a backup to Tigers catcher Jerry Moses. After 1975, his major league career, spent entirely with the Tigers, was over. He bounced around in the minors, on triple-A Evansville (with such players as Tom Brookens and Jerry Manuel) before stopping. He ended with a lifetime batting average of .233, with 4 home runs and 14 RBI in 87 games played. He had 37 hits in 159 at-bats, and stole 1 base.
The highlight of his time as a player had been a home run in his first at bat of his career off the Boston Red Sox' Cal Koonce. However, his career would go on as a manager, beginning soon in 1977 with the Kansas City Royals as a manager, managing their single-A Fort Myers team for two years. After that, he guided double-A Jacksonville Suns to a championship in 1982 and again in 1983, being named Southern League Manager of the Year in the former.
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