Thomas Raymond McBride (November 2, 1914 – December 26, 2001) was a
professional baseball
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outfielder
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. He played all or part of six seasons in
Major League Baseball
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for the
Boston Red Sox
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(1943–47) and
Washington Senators (1947–48). He also played extensively in
minor league baseball. His professional career spanned sixteen seasons, from 1936 until 1951.
Boston Red Sox
McBride's busiest and best major league season was 1945 when he appeared in 100 games for Boston and made 374
plate appearances
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. He hit .305 (105-for-344) with 1
home run
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, 47
runs batted in
A run batted in (RBI; plural RBIs ) is a statistic in baseball and softball that credits a batter for making a play that allows a run to be scored (except in certain situations such as when an error is made on the play). For example, if the bat ...
, and 38
runs scored
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. Also that season he tied a
major league record with 6 RBI in the 4th inning on August 4 (game 2). In that game against the Washington Senators he hit a bases-loaded
double
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and a bases-loaded
triple. McBride's 7 triples that season tied him for eighth in the
American League
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.
He played an important role on the pennant-winning Red Sox team of 1946, hitting .301 in 61 games and making no
errors in 43
outfield
The outfield, in cricket, baseball and softball is the area of the field of play further from the batsman or batter than the infield. In association football, the outfield players are positioned outside the goal area.
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appearances. In five
World Series
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games he was 2-for-12 with one RBI. Coincidentally, McBride made both the first and final outs of the
1946 World Series
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.
Washington Senators
On May 14, 1947 McBride was purchased by the Washington Senators from the Red Sox. In two seasons with Washington he hit a combined .263 and continued to play good defense. On July 2, 1948 he set the major league record of 12
putouts
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* Tagging a runner wi ...
in
left field
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in an extra-inning game. His last major league appearance was on September 30, 1948.
Career overview
In a total of 408 games he was 326-for-1186 (.275), and 93 walks and one
hit by pitch
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pushed his
on-base percentage
In baseball statistics, on-base percentage (OBP) measures how frequently a batter reaches base. An official Major League Baseball (MLB) statistic since 1984, it is sometimes referred to as on-base average (OBA), as it is rarely presented as a ...
up to .328. He had 2 HR, 141 RBI, scored 140 runs, and had a
slugging percentage
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of .340. In 312 outfield appearances and 16 appearances at
first base
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he handled 815 out of 826
chances
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successfully for a .987
fielding percentage
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.
External links
Baseball Library*
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2001 deaths
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