Hank Bauer

Bauer in 1953

Right fielder / Manager

Born: July 31, 1922
East St. Louis, Illinois

Died: February 9, 2007 (aged 84)
Lenexa, Kansas

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut

September 6, 1948, for the New York Yankees

Last MLB appearance

July 21, 1961, for the Kansas City Athletics

MLB statistics

Batting average

.277

Home runs

164

Runs batted in

703

Managerial record

594–544

Winning %

.522

Teams

As player

New York Yankees (1948–1959)
Kansas City Athletics (1960–1961)

As manager

Career highlights and awards

3× All-Star (1952–1954)
8× World Series champion (1949–1953, 1956, 1958, 1966)
Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame

Hank Bauer
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Marine Corps
Years of service	1942–1945
Battles/wars	Battle of Guadalcanal (1942–43) Battle of Guam (1944) Battle of Okinawa (1945)
Awards	Bronze Star (2) Purple Heart (2)
Other work	Professional baseball player

As player

As manager

Henry Albert "Hank" Bauer (July 31, 1922 – February 9, 2007) was an American right fielder and manager in Major League Baseball. He played with the New York Yankees (from 1948 to 1959) and Kansas City Athletics (from 1960 to 1961); he batted and threw right-handed. He served as the manager of the Athletics in both Kansas City (1961–62) and in Oakland (1969), as well as of the Baltimore Orioles (1964–68), guiding the Orioles to the World Series title in 1966, a four-game sweep over the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers. This represented the first World Series title in the franchise's history.

Born in East St. Louis, Illinois as the youngest of nine children, Bauer was the son of an Austrian immigrant, a bartender who had earlier lost his leg in an aluminum mill. With little money coming into the home, Bauer was forced to wear clothes made out of old feed sacks, helping shape his hard-nosed approach to life. (It was said that his care-worn face "looked like a clenched fist".)

While playing baseball and basketball at East St. Louis Central Catholic High School, Bauer suffered permanent damage to his nose, which was caused by an errant elbow from an opponent. Upon graduation in 1941, he was repairing furnaces in a beer-bottling plant when his brother Herman, a minor league player in the Chicago White Sox system, was able to get him a tryout that resulted in a contract with Oshkosh of the Class D Wisconsin State League.

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