Red Rolfe
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| Third baseman / Manager | |||
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Born: October 17, 1908 Penacook, New Hampshire |
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Died: July 8, 1969 (aged 60) Gilford, New Hampshire |
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| MLB debut | |||
| June 29, 1931, for the New York Yankees | |||
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| September 27, 1942, for the New York Yankees | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .289 | ||
| Home runs | 69 | ||
| Runs batted in | 497 | ||
| Managerial record | 278–256 | ||
| Winning % | .521 | ||
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Robert Abial "Red" Rolfe (October 17, 1908 – July 8, 1969) was an American third baseman, manager and front-office executive in Major League Baseball. The native of Penacook, New Hampshire, Rolfe, a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, also was an Ivy Leaguer: a graduate, then long-time athletic director of Dartmouth College, and (from 1943–46) baseball and basketball coach at Yale University.
During his playing career, Rolfe was the starting third baseman on the New York Yankees of the late 1930s. The "Bronx Bombers" of Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Bill Dickey, Lefty Gomez and Red Ruffing won American League pennants from 1936–39 and took all four World Series in which they appeared, winning 16 games and losing only three in Fall Classic play over that span. Rolfe played 10 major league seasons, all with New York, batting .289 in 1,175 games. His finest season came in 1939, when he amassed 213 hits, 139 runs scored, and 46 doubles while hitting .329 with 14 home runs and 80 runs batted in. He retired following the 1942 season.
After his four-year coaching stint at Yale, Rolfe coached the Toronto Huskies of the BAA in 1946–1947 and returned to the Yankees as a coach. After the 1947 season, Rolfe joined the Detroit Tigers as director of their farm system. But he returned to the field after only one season, when he succeeded Steve O'Neill as Tiger manager after the 1948 campaign.
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