Bobby Del Greco

Bobby Del Greco
Bobby Del Greco
	Center fielder
	Born: April 7, 1933 (age 91); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
	Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
	April 16, 1952, for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Last MLB appearance
	May 8, 1965, for the Philadelphia Phillies
MLB statistics
Batting average	.229
Home runs	42
Runs batted in	169
	Stats at Baseball Reference
Teams
	Pittsburgh Pirates (1952, 1956); St. Louis Cardinals (1956); Chicago Cubs (1957); New York Yankees (1957–1958); Philadelphia Phillies (1960–1961); Kansas City Athletics (1961–1963); Philadelphia Phillies (1965);

Robert George Del Greco (born April 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a retired American professional baseball player, an outfielder who appeared for six Major League Baseball teams during the 1950s and 1960s: the Pittsburgh Pirates (1952 and 1956), St. Louis Cardinals (1956), Chicago Cubs (1957), New York Yankees (1957–58), Philadelphia Phillies (1960–61 and 1965) and Kansas City Athletics (1961–63). He threw and batted right-handed, stood 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg).

Del Greco grew up in Pittsburgh's Hill District and was signed by the hometown Pirates. They traded him to the Cardinals on May 17, 1956, in a deal that brought center fielder Bill Virdon to Pittsburgh.^[1]

After spending most of 1957 with the seventh-place Cubs and in Triple-A, he was acquired by the pennant-winning Yankees on September 10. Del Greco was a light-hitting, speedy and defensively sound player. The Yankees used him to fill in for Mickey Mantle in the late innings, but Del Greco did not appear in the 1957 World Series, won by the Milwaukee Braves in seven games. He was the regular center fielder for the Kansas City Athletics from July 1961 through 1963, hitting a composite .233 in 327 games played. After a minor-league stint in 1964, he played his last major-league game for the Phillies in May 1965 and retired from baseball after the 1966 campaign.

In nine seasons he played in 731 games and had 1,982 at bats, 271 runs, 454 hits, 95 doubles, 11 triples, 42 home runs, 169 RBI, 16 stolen bases, 271 walks, .229 batting average, .330 on-base percentage, .352 slugging percentage, 697 yotal bases and 29 sacrifice hits. He wore 10 different numbers in his nine-year MLB career.

References

^ "Pirates obtain Virdon from Cards". The Pittsburgh Press. May 17, 1956. p. 6. Retrieved January 24, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

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[1] "Pirates obtain Virdon from Cards". The Pittsburgh Press. May 17, 1956. p. 6. Retrieved January 24, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.

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