Henry Albert "Hank" Bauer (born July 31, 1922 in East St. Louis, Illinois) is a former right fielder and manager in Major League Baseball. He played with the New York Yankees (1948-1959) and Kansas City Athletics (1960-61); he batted and threw right-handed. He served as manager for the Athletics (KC in 1961-62 and Oakland in 1969) and Baltimore Orioles (1964-68).

Career

In a 14-season career, Bauer had a .277 batting average with 164 home runs and 703 RBI in 1544 games.

As a manager, he guide the Orioles to the 1966 World Championship. During the regular season he posted a 594-544 record, including two second-place finishes for the 1967 Orioles and 1969 Athletics.

Highlights

• 3-time All-Star (1952-54)
• From 1956-58 set a World Series hitting streak record of 17 games, which was later matched as a postseason record by Derek Jeter and Manny Ramírez.

Quote

• Hank (Bauer) crawled on top of the Yankee dugout and searched the stands, looking for a fan who was shouting racial slurs at Elston Howard. When asked about the incident, Bauer explained simply, "Ellie's my friend". -- Excerpt of the book "Clubhouse Lawyer", by Art Ditmar, former major league pitcher [1].

See also

• List of famous U.S. Marines

External links

• Baseball Library
• as player
• Baseball-Reference.com - career statistics and analysis as manager