Bobby Bragan Baseball player

Robert Randall Bragan (October 30, 1917 – January 21, 2010) was an American shortstop, catcher, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball. He also was an influential executive in minor league baseball. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama.On August 16, 2005, Bragan came out of retirement to manage the independent Central League Fort Worth Cats for one game, making him — at 87 years, nine months, and 16 days old — the oldest manager in professional baseball annals (besting by one week Connie Mack, the manager and part-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics). Always known as an innovator with a sense of humor — and an umpire-baiter — Bragan was ejected in the third inning of his "comeback", thus also becoming the oldest person in any capacity to be ejected from a professional baseball game.Bragan died on January 21, 2010 of a heart attack at his home in Fort Worth.

Personal facts

Bobby Bragan
Alias (AKA)Bragan Robert Randall; Bragan Robert R.
Birth dateOctober 30, 1917
Date of deathJanuary 21, 2010
Place of death
Fort Worth Texas

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Baseball player

Career startApril 16, 1940
Career endJune 27, 1948
batting sideRight
former teams
Los Angeles Dodgers
Philadelphia Phillies
position
Catcher
Shortstop
teams
Atlanta Braves
Cleveland Indians
Los Angeles Dodgers
Philadelphia Phillies
Pittsburgh Pirates
throwing sideRight

Bobby Bragan on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.BobbyBragan.org
  2. http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/bragabo01.shtml
  3. http://www.bobbybragan.org
  4. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46961390
  5. http://www.losangelesdodgersonline.com/bobbybragan.php
  6. http://www.tshof.org