Bob Bailey Marquee

b. October 13, 1942 · Pittsburgh Pirates 1962–1966, Los Angeles Dodgers 1967–1968, Montreal Expos 1969–1975, Cincinnati Reds 1976–1977, Boston Red Sox 1977–1978

Pittsburgh gave him $175,000 out of a Long Beach high school in 1961, the largest bonus anyone had received, and the newspapers called him the next great third baseman for four years while he hit .240. He was twenty-three before he had a good season.

Seventeen seasons gave him 1,564 hits, 189 home runs, 773 runs batted in, 852 walks and a .257 average. The best of it was in Montreal, where he hit 28 home runs in 1970 and 26 in 1973 and drew 88 walks, and where the Expos' crowds took to him.

He was never an All-Star. He finished as a designated hitter in Boston and was on the 1978 club that lost the playoff to New York. The 1984 ballot gave him one vote of 403. He died in 2018, at seventy-five.

Honors

Award	Times	Years
Player of the Week	1	1973

Batting, season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
1962	PIT	14	42	6	7	2	1	0	6	6	10	1	.167
1963	PIT	154	570	60	130	15	3	12	45	58	98	10	.228
1964	PIT	143	530	73	149	26	3	11	51	44	78	10	.281
1965	PIT	159	626	87	160	28	3	11	49	70	93	10	.256
1966	PIT	126	380	51	106	19	3	13	46	47	65	5	.279
1967	LAD	116	322	21	73	8	2	4	28	40	50	5	.227
1968	LAD	105	322	24	73	9	3	8	39	38	69	1	.227
1969	MON	111	358	46	95	16	6	9	53	40	76	3	.265
1970	MON	131	352	77	101	19	3	28	84	72	70	5	.287
1971	MON	157	545	65	137	21	4	14	83	97	105	13	.251
1972	MON	143	489	55	114	10	4	16	57	59	112	6	.233
1973	MON	151	513	77	140	25	4	26	86	88	99	5	.273
1974	MON	152	507	69	142	20	2	20	73	100	107	4	.280
1975	MON	106	227	23	62	5	0	5	30	46	38	4	.273
1976	CIN	69	124	17	37	6	1	6	23	16	26	0	.298
1977	BOS/CIN	51	81	9	20	2	1	2	11	12	11	1	.247
1978	BOS	43	94	12	18	3	0	4	9	19	19	2	.191
Career	—	1931	6082	772	1564	234	43	189	773	852	1126	85	.257

On this day & linked events

1942

Born October 13, 1942

Long Beach, CA, USA

2018

Died January 9, 2018

1962

Major-league debut: Bob Bailey

Bob Bailey made a major-league debut on September 14, 1962.

1978

Final major-league game: Bob Bailey

Bob Bailey played a final major-league game on October 2, 1978.

Image: Unknown author Unknown, public domain