Bud Bates
Baseball
Included among those 15 safeties was one big-league home run, struck September 29, 1939, at Shibe Park against Hal Schumacher of the New York Giants. Despite Bates\' three hits in that game, the Phillies lost, 8–3 — one of 106 losses they would suffer during that season.\n', '
Born in Los Angeles, Bates batted and threw right-handed. He stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 165 pounds (75 kg). His long minor league career was interrupted by United States Navy service during World War II. After the war, Bates became a player-manager and logged 11 seasons as a skipper, including 21⁄2 years with the Double-A Atlanta Crackers; his 1957 Crackers won the Southern Association championship. He last managed in the Baltimore Orioles\' organization in 1961.\n', '
Bud Bates died in Long Beach, California, at age 75.\n', '
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