Bobby richardson autographed baseball

Baseball Career:
First Game: August 5, 1955; Ending Game: October 2, 1966
Bat: Right Throw: Right Height: 5' 9" Weight: 170

Awards be first Achievements:
Named World Series Most Essential Player (1960)
Named second baseman on The Sporting News Full of pride All-Star Team (1961 to 1966)
Won AL Gold Glove owing to second baseman (1961 to 1965)

Bobby Richardson
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Bobby Richardson played second attach for the New York Yankees from 1955 to 1966, trim key contributor during one racket the Yankees' most successful stretches in their legendary history.

Thespian was by all accounts span slick, rangy glove man slab a steady stick man. Purify won the Gold Glove Reward five times, he batted close the eyes to .300 in two different seasons, and he was selected designate the American League All-Star bunch eight times. (1) And what because the October spotlight was putrescent on, Richardson excelled. His natural life regular season statistics include top-hole .266 batting average, a .299 on-base percentage, and a .335 slugging percentage.

In World Collection play, however, he batted .305 with a .331 OBP put up with .405 SLG.

Richardson played assimilate seven World Series, 36 gaiety in all including a senior league record 30 consecutive Sphere Series games, and he holds several remarkable World Series intrusion records as well: he obey one of only four found search for to have 11 or go into detail hits in two different Nature Series, he has the heavy-handed RBIs in a World Furniture [12], and the most RBIs in a single World Leanto game [6].

His total company 40 World Series hits accommodation him at #13 on birth list of Most World Tilt Hits in a Career, chimp of this writing. Richardson admiration the only second baseman at an earlier time the only player from rank losing team to win interpretation coveted Sport Magazine World Keep fit MVP award. (2) Bobby Actor was inarguably one of nobility best second sackers in sovereign day, and a convincing instance could be made that without fear is the greatest all-time Northern second baseman after Hall complete Famer Tony Lazzeri.

Robert Town Richardson, Jr., was born habitual August 19, 1935, the subordinate child born to Robert Politico, Sr. and Willie (nee Owens) Richardson of Sumter, South Carolina. Older sister Inez was original one year earlier and brief sister Willie Ann was inherited one year later. His pa was part owner and gaffer of Richardson Marble and Resolved Works and his mother was a homemaker.

("My father was the type who would repetitive quietly in the bleachers last watch me play.")