Clete Boyer
Clete Boyer was born in Barry County, Missouri, United States on February 9th, 1937 and is the Baseball Player. At the age of 70, Clete Boyer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Cletis Leroy "Clete" Boyer (February 9, 1937 – June 4, 2007) was a Major League Baseball player.
Boyer played for the Kansas City Athletics (1955–66), and the Atlanta Braves (1967–71). He also played shortstop and second base occasionally.
Boyer also played for four seasons with the Taiyo Whales in the Central League of Japanese baseball.
Boyer had 654 runs batted in and a.242 batting average in 1,725 games played during his 16-year career.
Early life
Boyer, who was born in Cassville, Missouri, grew up in Alba, Missouri, as one of fourteen children. Both seven boys in the family played competitive baseball, with two of his older brothers making the major leagues: In the early 1950s, Cloyd was a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, and Ken became the Cardinals' All-Star third baseman.
Early career
While the boyer was still in high school, he was scouted by the New York Yankees. However, the Yankees had already signed two other highly praised "bonus babies" before deciding against signing him, but the team decided that they were unable to sign him due to the laws governing bonus babies, which required them to be on the Major League roster for their first two professional seasons. Knowing Boyer would be a good actor, George Weiss, the Yankees' general manager, contacted Parke Carroll, who the Yankees had a close friendship with, to contact Boyer with the express intent of purchasing him (whether trade or sale of his contract). At age 18, Boyer came into the major leagues as a utility infielder. He played for the Kansas City Athletics from 1955 to 1957 with no participation in minor leagues.
The Boyer was traded to the Yankees by June 4, 1957, bringing an end to a contract that had been in place before the season began. The Athletics had dealt with five players, including pitcher Bobby Shantz and Art Ditmar, to the Yankees for seven players, most notable Irv Noren and Billy Hunter, on February 19. Three players were expected to be named later, two going to the Yankees and the other to the Athletics, and one for the Athletics. Boyer was one of the players to be named, fulfilling Weiss' original intention of making Boyer a Yankee.