Roy Hartsfield
| Roy Hartsfield | |||
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| Second baseman / Manager | |||
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Born: October 25, 1925 Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia |
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Died: January 15, 2011 (aged 85) Ball Ground, Georgia |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 28, 1950, for the Boston Braves | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| June 14, 1952, for the Boston Braves | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .273 | ||
| Stolen bases | 14 | ||
| Home runs | 13 | ||
| Runs batted in | 138 | ||
| Games managed | 484 | ||
| Managerial record | 166–318 | ||
| Winning % | .343 | ||
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Roy Thomas Hartsfield (October 25, 1925 – January 15, 2011) was a second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball; his MLB playing and managing careers each lasted three years. Hartsfield played his entire major-league career with the Boston Braves (now the Atlanta Braves) from 1950 to 1952. He was then traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers for outfielder Andy Pafko. Hartsfield spent the next 19 years in the Dodgers organization as a minor league player and manager and major league coach. In the latter role, he worked under Los Angeles skipper Walter Alston for three seasons.
Hartsfield played for the Boston Braves between 1950 and 1952. In 265 career games, he had a .273 batting average, 13 home runs, and 59 runs batted in during his playing career.
Hartsfield was a successful pilot at top levels of minor league baseball, with the Spokane Indians, then Los Angeles Dodgers' top farm team, and the Hawaii Islanders, the San Diego Padres' top affiliate, where he won Pacific Coast League championships in 1975 and 1976. He also coached in the Majors for the Dodgers (1969–72) and Atlanta Braves (briefly in 1973).
In 1977, Hartsfield was hired as the first-ever manager of the expansion Toronto Blue Jays by the Jays' first general manager, Peter Bavasi, who had worked with him in the Dodger and Padre organizations. Hartsfield was quoted in 1997 that "the guys I managed the year before in Hawaii (in the triple-A Pacific Coast League) were probably a better team." Hartsfield led the Jays to a 54–107 record in the 1977 season. Notable games from the season include a 9–5 win against the Chicago White Sox on opening day and a 19–3 win against eventual division champions New York Yankees. The Jays finished the season 45.5 games behind the Yankees.
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