Buddy Hicks
Clarence Walter "Buddy" Hicks (February 15, 1927 – December 8, 2014) was an American professional baseball player and manager. Primarily a shortstop during his 17-year active career (1944; 1947–62), he also played third base and first base. Hicks was a switch hitter who threw right-handed, standing  tall and weighing . Hicks had a 26-game trial with the  Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball, garnering ten hits in 47 at bats for a .213 batting average, with two doubles and five runs batted in. Defensively, he handled 52 total chances at shortstop and second base without an error for a 1.000 fielding percentage. The rest of his career was spent in minor league baseball, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Tigers, Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves and Philadelphia Phillies organizations. In 1,854 minor league games, he batted .273 with 63 home runs. He spent a decade (1960–69) as a minor league manager, working for the Braves and Washington Senators, including all or parts of three seasons at the Double-A level. References

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1927 births
2014 deaths
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