Roy Sievers
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| Roy Sievers | |||
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 Sievers with the Washington Senators in 1959 | |||
| First baseman / Left fielder | |||
| Born: November 18, 1926 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | |||
| Died: April 3, 2017 (aged 90) Spanish Lake, Missouri, U.S. | |||
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 21, 1949, for the St. Louis Browns | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| May 9, 1965, for the Washington Senators | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .267 | ||
| Home runs | 318 | ||
| Runs batted in | 1,147 | ||
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Roy Edward Sievers (November 18, 1926 – April 3, 2017) was an American professional baseball player.
Sievers won the American League Rookie of the Year and TSN Rookie of the Year awards in 1949, batting .306 with 16 home runs and 75 RBI.
Sievers was signed by the St. Louis Browns as a free agent in 1947. Sievers debuted in the major leagues on April 21, 1949. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman/left fielder. From 1949 through 1965, Sievers played for the St. Louis Browns (1949–53), the original Washington Senators (1954–59), Chicago White Sox (1960–61), Philadelphia Phillies (1962–64), and finally the new Senators (1964–65). He batted and threw right-handed.
Sievers was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
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He died in Spanish Lake, Missouri on April 3, 2017, aged 90.
Other websites
- profile and chronology Archived 2007-09-14 at the Wayback Machine Baseball Library
References
- 1 2 "Baseball Awards Voting for 1957". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved January 8, 2009.
- ↑ Chris Cwik (April 4, 2017). "Roy Sievers, MLB's first AL Rookie of the Year Award winner, dead at 90". Yahoo Sports. Archived from the original on April 5, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
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