Richie Ashburn
Richie Ashburn was born in Tilden, Nebraska, United States on March 19th, 1927 and is the Baseball Player. At the age of 70, Richie Ashburn 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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Playing career
Ashburn, one of the National League champions of the 1950 Phillies, spent 12 of his 15 major-league seasons as the Phillies' center fielder (1948–1959). He had a.308 lifetime batting average, leading the National League twice and often leading the league in fielding percentages. In 1950, he shrew Dodgers' runner Cal Abrams out at home plate to keep a 1–1 draw and set the tone for Dick Sisler's pennant-clinching home run. He had been playing in to back up a pick-off throw on a pitchout, but instead, pitcher Robin Roberts had to throw a fastball to the batter, Duke Snider.
In the All-Star Game at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Ashburn demonstrated his fielding abilities on the national stage. "Richie Ashburn, the Philadelphia Phillies' fleetfooted outfielder, brought the huge Briggs Stadium crowd of 52,075 to its feet in the sixth inning, robing Vic Wertz of a near home run," the Associated Press announced. After a long run, Ashburn caught the ball in front of the right centerfield screen 400 feet distant." In a double-header at Pittsburgh on May 20, 1951, he became the first Phillies player to score eight runs in a double-header.
Ashburn was a singles hitter rather than a slugger, totaling more than 2,500 hits in 15 years against only 29 home runs. In his day, he was known as the archetypal "spray hitter" and was stroking the ball in equal measure across all fields, making it difficult to defend against. During the 1950s, Ashburn had the most hits (1,875) of any batter.
During a game on August 17, 1957, Ashburn launched a foul ball into the stands, which stunned spectator Alice Roth, wife of Philadelphia Bulletin sports editor Earl Roth, breaking her nose. When play resumed, Ashburn fouled off another ball that hit her while she was being carried away in a stretcher. Ashburn and Roth developed a friendship for many years, and the Roths' son later played as a Phillies batboy.
Following the 1959 season for three players, Ashburn was traded to the Chicago Cubs. In 1960 and 1961, he was moved to anchor center field for the North Siders. Ashburn has hosted a post-game baseball instruction clinic at Wrigley Field for the benefit of the children in the WGN-TV viewing audience, anticipating a future career behind a microphone.
Ashburn was the first batter in franchise history when the New York Mets purchased him for the 1962 season. He had a good year offensively, batting.306 on the team's first All-Star Game representative, as well as the team's first All-Star Game representative. Despite that, it was a difficult year for the polished professional, who had started his career as a winner and found himself playing for the least winning team in modern baseball history (with a record of 40–120). He resigned at the end of the season.
Ashburn's center fielder Ashburn will collide with shortstop Elio Chacón, according to one of the few old tales. Chacón, a Venezuelan, spoke little English and had trouble understanding when Ashburn was calling him off the ball. Joe Christopher, a teammate on Ashburn, escorted the situation to say "Yo la tengo" in Spanish, which means "I've got it." When Ashburn first used this word, it was fine, preventing Chacón from running into him. Frank Thomas, the outfielder who did not speak a word of Spanish, was slammed into Ashburn, but then came to an end. "What the heck is a Yellow Tango?" Thomas asked Ashburn after getting up. The name of the American indie rock band Yo La Tengo was inspired by this anecdote.
Ashburn played for the 8th-place Phillies, the 7th-place Cubs, and the 10th-place Mets in his five seasons. The famed first-year Mets club won just a quarter of its games, and Ashburn has decided to pull out of active play. Ashburn was one of the three Mets victims in a triple play called off by his former teammates, the 9th-place Cubs, during the Mets' 120th loss. It was the possibility of sitting on the bench that caused Ashburn to resign: "He spent a long time with another team, and it bothered him." Jimmy Breslin said. He also stated that if he had to be a benchwarmer for the New York Mets, he'd commit suicide.
Ashburn, who lived in Tilden during the offseason, officiated high school basketball games throughout Nebraska as a way to keep in playing shape. He rose to prominence as a respected leader but he resigned from officiating when he retired from baseball.
Post-career and death
Ashburn's original big-league team, starting in 1963, he became a radio and television color commentator for the Philadelphia Phillies. Bill Campbell and Byrum Saam, long-serving Phillies announcers, were among the first to work with him. Campbell was fired by the Phillies in 1971 and replaced by Harry Kalas. Ashburn worked with Saam and Kalas from 1971 to 1976, which would both be Ford C. Frick Award winners. Saam retired in 1976 and Ashburn continued working with Kalas for the next two decades, the two becoming the best friends. Kalas used the term "His Whiteness" to describe Ashburn, a term Kalas used for the majority of Ashburn's life for the man he openly adored.
For The Philadelphia Bulletin and the Philadelphia Daily News, Ashburn regularly wrote for columns on the Philadelphia Phillies and Major League Baseball.
He intended to retire from broadcasting at the end of the 1997 season, according to Ashburn's mother. Ashburn died after a heart attack at Shea Stadium on September 9, 1997. In Memorial Hall, located in Fairmount Park, a large crowd of supporters paid their respects to him by passing by his casket. He is laid to rest in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in the suburban Gladwyne Methodist Church Cemetery.