Ray Berres
| Ray Berres | |
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| Catcher | |
| Born: August 31, 1907 Kenosha , United States 
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| Died on: February 1, 2007 Kenosha , United States
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| Suggested: Right | Threw: Right |
| Debut in Major League Baseball | |
| April 24, 1934 with the Brooklyn Dodgers | |
| Last MLB assignment | |
| September 30, 1945 with the New York Giants | |
| MLB statistics (until end of career) |
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| Batting average | , 216 |
| Home runs | 3 |
| Runs Batted In | 78 |
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Raymond Frederick "Ray" Berres (born August 31, 1907 in Kenosha , Wisconsin , † February 1, 2007 ibid) was an American baseball player and coach of Major League Baseball .
Career
Ray Berres played for four different National League teams in eleven seasons . His unerring catch and a remarkable throwing hand, he was right-handed, set him apart. For the professional league he was committed by the Brooklyn Dodgers, today's Los Angeles Dodgers , who brought him in 1933 from the Birmingham Barons. He made his first game in the league in 1934 when he covered the then star Al Lopez . A year later, he had to return to the minor league , but was able to come back as a starting thrower in 1936, after Lopez left for Boston in December 1935. It was also his most successful season of his career when he set personal records with a batting average of .240, 64 hits and 10 doubles. A year later he went to the Pittsburgh Pirates , from where he went in 1940 in exchange with Lopez to the Boston Bees, which were the predecessor team of the Atlanta Braves . Before the 1942 season he went to the San Francisco Giants , where he played again for four years before ending his career after the 1945 season. In his eleven-year career, Berres hit three home runs and 78 batted-in runs in 561 games as a hitter . He also coached the Chicago White Sox for nearly two decades , which he coached from 1949 to 1968. During this time, the American League Champion title fell in 1959 and the team was managed by Al Lopez.
death
Berres died on 1 February 2007 in his native Kenosha, Wisconsin at a pneumonia , a few months before his hundredth birthday.
Web links
- Player information and statistics from Baseball Reference or Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
- Ray Berres in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- Ray Berres in the baseball almanac
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| SURNAME | Berres, Ray |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berres, Raymond Frederick (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American baseball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kenosha , Wisconsin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 2007 |
| Place of death | Kenosha , Wisconsin |