American baseball player (1912-1987)
Baseball player
Bud Bates Outfielder Born: (1912-03-16 ) March 16, 1912Los Angeles, California , U.S.Died: April 29, 1987(1987-04-29) (aged 75)Long Beach, California , U.S.Batted: Right
Threw: Right
September 16, 1939 , for the Philadelphia Phillies October 1, 1939 , for the Philadelphia Phillies Batting average .259 Home runs 1 Runs batted in 2 Stats at Baseball Reference
Hubert Edgar "Buddy " Bates (March 16, 1912 – April 29, 1987) was an American professional baseball player whose 18-year active career took place over a quarter century — between 1931 and 1955. All but 15 of Bates' games played occurred in the minor leagues , however. In his only trial in Major League Baseball , the outfielder spent September 1939 with the Philadelphia Phillies , where he collected 15 hits in 58 at bats ; he scored eight runs .
Included among those 15 safeties was one big-league home run , struck September 29, 1939, at Shibe Park against Hal Schumacher of the New York Giants .[ 1]
Born in Los Angeles , Bates batted and threw right-handed . He stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 165 pounds (75 kg). His long minor league career was interrupted by United States Navy service during World War II . After the war, Bates became a player-manager and logged 11 seasons as a skipper, including 21 ⁄2 Double-A Atlanta Crackers ; his 1957 Crackers won the Southern Association championship. He last managed in the Baltimore Orioles ' organization in 1961.
Bud Bates died in Long Beach, California , at age 75.
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