Archie Moore (baseball)
Appearance
Archie Moore | |||||||||||||||
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Outfielder | |||||||||||||||
Born: Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. | August 30, 1941|||||||||||||||
Batted: Left Threw: Left | |||||||||||||||
MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
April 20, 1964, for the New York Yankees | |||||||||||||||
Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||
September 28, 1965, for the New York Yankees | |||||||||||||||
MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
Batting average | .275 | ||||||||||||||
Home runs | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 5 | ||||||||||||||
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Medals
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Archie Francis Moore (born August 30, 1941) is an American former Major League Baseball player. Moore appeared in forty games for the New York Yankees during the 1964 and 1965 seasons, as an outfielder, first baseman and pinch hitter. He batted and threw left-handed.
Biography
[edit]Moore grew up in Florham Park, New Jersey.[1] and attended Hanover Park High School in East Hanover Township together with future MLB pitcher Harry Fanok.[2]
He was signed by the Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1963.
References
[edit]- ^ Staff. "YANKS WIN By 9‐8 ON 5 RUNS IN 9TH", The New York Times, April 5, 1964. Accessed October 29, 2017. "Richardson grounded to Minoso, who made his erratic peg to set up the game‐winning situation for Moore, the bonus player from Florham Park, N. J., via Springfield (Mass.) College."
- ^ Costello, Rory; and Fanok, Harry. Harry Fanok, Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed October 29, 2017. "After leaving Morristown Prep, I went to Hanover Park High School.... We had a lot of heart on that Hornet team though. Jim Russin, Archie Moore [1964-65 Yankees], and myself would go on to the pros."
External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
Categories:
- 1941 births
- Living people
- All-American college baseball players
- Hanover Park High School alumni
- Major League Baseball outfielders
- New York Yankees players
- Baseball players from Morris County, New Jersey
- Baseball players from Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- Springfield Pride baseball players
- People from Florham Park, New Jersey
- Baseball players at the 1963 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1963 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in baseball
- Asheville Tourists players
- Binghamton Triplets players
- Indianapolis Indians players
- Syracuse Chiefs players
- Toledo Mud Hens players