What is Bobby Winkles?
'''Bobby Brooks Winkles''' (March 11, 1930 &ndash; April 17, 2020) was an American [[baseball]] player and manager.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1j8sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CMwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7161,2249089&dq=baseball+bobby-winkles&hl=en|title=Winkles is named manager of Angels|date=12 October 1972|work=[[Spartanburg Herald-Journal|Spartanburg Herald]]|page=D2|access-date=15 June 2010}}</ref> He was born in [[Tuckerman, Arkansas|Tuckerman]], [[Arkansas]], but was raised in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. Winkles was the third base coach for the [[Oakland Athletics]] int the 1970s. Winkles worked at [[Arizona State University]] and managed in [[Major League Baseball]]. Winkles is a right-handed-hitting and -throwing [[infielder]]. He played [[minor league baseball]] in the [[Chicago White Sox]] organization between 1951 and 1958, [[batting average|hitting .270]] with 890 [[hit (baseball)|hits]] in 858 [[games played]] before retiring to become Arizona State's head baseball coach at age 29.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/24/archives/as-winkles-steps-down.html?_r=0|title=A's Winkles Steps Down|date=24 May 1978|work=The Associated Press|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=1 December 2017}}</ref> Winkles died on April 17, 2020, aged 90.<ref>[https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/college/asu/2020/04/17/college-baseball-coaching-legend-bobby-winkles-arizona-state-dead-90/5158043002/ Bobby Winkles, former Arizona State baseball coaching great, dies at 90]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{baseballstats | brm=winkle001rob }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Winkles, Bobby}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Chicago White Sox]] [[Category:Oakland Athletics]] [[Category:American baseball players]] [[Category:Baseball coaches]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Arkansas]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Chicago]] {{US-sports-bio-stub}}