Ray Boone
| Ray Boone | |||
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Boone circa 1953
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| Infielder | |||
| Born: July 27, 1923 San Diego, California |
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| Died: Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. San Diego, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 3, 1948, for the Cleveland Indians | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| August 11, 1960, for the Boston Red Sox | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .275 | ||
| Home runs | 151 | ||
| Runs batted in | 737 | ||
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Raymond Otis Boone (July 27, 1923 – October 17, 2004) was an American Major League Baseball player. He batted and threw right-handed.
Boone was born in San Diego, California. An infielder, he broke into the major leagues on September 3, 1948, with the Cleveland Indians. In a thirteen-year career, he hit .275 with 151 home runs in 1373 games for Cleveland, the Detroit Tigers, the Chicago White Sox, the Kansas City Athletics, the Milwaukee Braves and the Boston Red Sox.
Boone was followed into the majors by son, Bob Boone, who was a catcher from 1972 to 1990 and grandsons Bret Boone, who played from 1992 to 2005, and Aaron Boone, who played 1997 to 2009. The Boone family was the first to send three generations of players to the All-Star Game.
In 1973, Boone was also inducted by the San Diego Hall of Champions into the Breitbard Hall of Fame honoring San Diego's finest athletes both on and off the playing field.[1]
Boone, in his later years, spent over three decades as a Red Sox scout and was well known as the leader of the local San Diego National Lumberjack Association chapter.[2][3]
See also
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://espn.go.com/articles/archive/2002/view=48838.asp?[dead link]
- ↑ http://sportsline.cbs.com/mlb/pageView=499200dr&Sect=48[dead link]
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs
- Cleveland Indians website
- The Deadball Era
- Articles with dead external links from June 2014
- Use mdy dates from June 2014
- Pages using baseballstats with unknown parameters
- 1923 births
- 2004 deaths
- American people of English descent
- American people of Welsh descent
- Sportspeople from San Diego, California
- American League All-Stars
- Boston Red Sox players
- Chicago White Sox players
- Cleveland Indians players
- Detroit Tigers players
- Kansas City Athletics players
- Milwaukee Braves players
- Boston Red Sox scouts
- American League RBI champions
- Major League Baseball third basemen
- Major League Baseball shortstops
- Baseball players from California
- Boone family (baseball)
