Tommie Aaron
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| Tommie Aaron | |||
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| Outfielder | |||
| Born: August 5, 1939 Mobile, Alabama |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 10, 1962, for the Milwaukee Braves | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 24, 1971, for the Atlanta Braves | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Home runs | 13 | ||
| Batting average | .229 | ||
| Hits | 216 | ||
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| As player
As coach |
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Tommie Lee Aaron (August 5, 1939 – August 16, 1984) was a first baseman and left fielder in Major League Baseball, and a younger brother of Hall of Famer Hank Aaron. They were the first siblings to appear in a League Championship Series as teammates. Born in Mobile, Alabama, he was signed by the Milwaukee Braves on May 28, 1958, at the age of 18. He played for both the Milwaukee Braves (1962–1963, 1965) and the Atlanta Braves (1968–1971).
During the course of his development as a player, Tommie Aaron played for the Richmond Braves of the International League in the mid-1960s, where he was International League MVP in 1967. After his playing days, he worked for the organization as a minor league manager (1973–1978) and major league coach (1979–1984).
Aaron hit a total of 13 major league home runs, with eight of them coming in his first year of 1962, but along with his brother's then Major League record 755, they hold the Major League record for the most career home runs between two brothers (768). The only other brother of a 500-home run man to play in the majors was Rich Murray (brother of Eddie Murray), who hit four home runs in a brief major league career.
Aaron finished his career with a lifetime batting average of .229, 13 HR, 94 RBI, and 102 runs scored in 437 ballgames. He died of leukemia in 1984 and was buried in the Catholic Cemetery of Mobile, Alabama.[1]
Career statistics
| G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 437 | 944 | 216 | 42 | 6 | 13 | 102 | 94 | 9 | 86 | 145 | .229 | .292 | .327 | .619 |
References
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Retrosheet
- Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics
- The Deadball Era obituary
- Pages using baseballstats with unknown parameters
- 1939 births
- 1984 deaths
- African-American baseball players
- Atlanta Braves coaches
- Atlanta Braves players
- Atlanta Crackers players
- Austin Senators players
- Baseball players from Alabama
- Burials at the Catholic Cemetery, Mobile
- Cancer deaths in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Cedar Rapids Braves players
- Deaths from leukemia
- Denver Bears players
- Eau Claire Braves players
- International League Hall of Fame inductees
- Jacksonville Braves players
- Louisville Colonels (minor league) players
- Major League Baseball first basemen
- Major League Baseball left fielders
- Milwaukee Braves players
- Minor league baseball managers
- Richmond Braves players
- Savannah Braves players
- Sportspeople from Atlanta, Georgia
- Sportspeople from Mobile, Alabama
- Tigres de Aragua players
