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Subject: Bobby Doerr Dies nsr

For the old baseball fan another Hall of Famer dies at 99 years old...I remember the name well since he played the position I hoped to play for the NY Giants when I grew up. I never did grow up though.


Bobby Doerr, the Hall of Fame second baseman who was a smooth fielder, timely hitter and immensely popular figure through 14 seasons with the Boston Red Sox, died on Monday in Junction City, Ore. He was 99 and had been the oldest living former major leaguer.

The Red Sox announced his death. “Bobby’s life is one we salute not only for its longevity, but for its grace,” the organization’s chairman, Tom Werner, said in a statement. “He set the standard for what it means to be a good teammate.”

Doerr was a celebrated presence at Fenway Park, along with Ted Williams and Dom DiMaggio in the outfield and Johnny Pesky at shortstop. He was the last surviving major league player from the 1930s, having begun his career with the Red Sox in 1937.

His death leaves Red Schoendienst, 94, best known for his years with the St. Louis Cardinals, as the oldest living Hall of Famer.

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Doerr lacked the tempestuousness of a Williams and the celebrity name of a DiMaggio. He went about his business quietly and became a team leader through his steady excellence.

“We never had a captain, but he was the silent captain of the team,” Williams said when Doerr was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1986.

Playing at Fenway Park into the early 1950s, except for one year in the Army during World War II, Doerr was a nine-time American League All-Star. He set a record for consecutive fielding chances without an error, batted over .300 in three different seasons and drove in more than 100 runs six times.

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Bobby Doerr, left, with Red Sox shortstop Johnny Pesky in the clubhouse at Yankee Stadium on July 1, 1951, after Doerr got his 2,000th career hit. The two were a formidable infield tandem. Credit Associated Press

His teams won just one American League pennant, in 1946. The Red Sox went on to lose to the St. Louis Cardinals in a seven-game World Series, but he batted .409 in that series.

“Doerr was easily the most popular player of the Red Sox and possibly the most popular baseball player of his era,” David Halberstam wrote in “Summer of ’49” (1989), an account of a memorable pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees. “He was so modest and his disposition so gentle that his colleagues often described him as ‘sweet.’ He was the kind of man other men might have envied had they not liked him so much.”


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