Lyle Bigbee
Appearance
Lyle Bigbee | |
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Pitcher / Outfielder | |
Born: Waterloo, Oregon, U.S. | August 22, 1893|
Died: August 3, 1942 Portland, Oregon, U.S. | (aged 48)|
Batted: Left Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
April 15, 1920, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 15, 1921, for the Pittsburgh Pirates | |
MLB statistics | |
Win–loss record | 0–3 |
Earned run average | 6.96 |
Strikeouts | 13 |
Batting average | .182 |
Home runs | 1 |
Runs batted in | 8 |
Stats at Baseball Reference | |
Teams | |
Lyle Randolph "Al" Bigbee (August 22, 1893 – August 5, 1942) was an outfielder and pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Pittsburgh Pirates and end for the Milwaukee Badgers in 1922.
Bigbee's brother Carson spent eleven seasons with the Pirates as an outfielder and second baseman. They were teammates on the 1921 Pirates. Lyle, Carson and their brother Morris were all standout athletes at the University of Oregon.[1]
In 1942, Bigbee committed suicide by gunshot wound to the head at a Portland rooming house.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Lyle Bigbee, 45, Dies From Bullet". The Bend Bulletin. August 5, 1942. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
External links
[edit]- Career statistics from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
Categories:
- 1893 births
- 1942 suicides
- 1942 deaths
- People from Linn County, Oregon
- Philadelphia Athletics players
- Pittsburgh Pirates players
- Milwaukee Badgers players
- Baseball players from Oregon
- Players of American football from Oregon
- Suicides by firearm in Oregon
- Oregon Ducks baseball players
- Los Angeles Angels (minor league) players
- Louisville Colonels (minor league) players
- Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players
- Newark Bears (International League) players
- Portland Beavers players
- Seattle Rainiers players
- Spokane Indians players
- United States Army personnel of World War I
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American baseball outfielder, 1890s birth stubs
- American baseball pitcher, 1890s births stubs