Tom McBride (baseball)

Thomas Raymond McBride (November 2, 1914 - December 26, 2001) was a Major League Baseball outfielder. A native of Bonham, Texas, he played for the Boston Red Sox (1943-1947) and Washington Senators (1947-1948).

McBride's busiest and best season was 1945 when he appeared in 100 games for Boston and made 374 plate appearances. He hit .305 (105-for-344) with 1 home run, 47 runs batted in, and 38 runs scored. Also that season he tied a major league record with 6 RBI in the 4th inning on August 4 (game 2). In that game against the Washington Senators he hit a bases-loaded double and a bases-loaded triple. McBride's 7 triples that season tied him for eighth in the American League.

He played an important role on the pennant-winning Red Sox team of 1946, hitting .301 in 61 games and making no errors in 43 outfield appearances. In five World Series games he was 2-for-12 with one RBI.

On May 14, 1947 McBride was purchased by the Washington Senators from the Red Sox. In two seasons with Washington he hit a combined .263 and continued to play good defense. His last major league appearance was on September 30, 1948.

In a total of 408 games he was 326-for-1186 (.275), and 93 walks and one hit by pitch pushed his on base percentage up to .328. He had 2 HR, 141 RBI, scored 140 runs, and had a slugging percentage of .340. In 312 outfield appearances and 16 at first base he handled 815 out of 826 chances successfully for a .987 fielding percentage.

Trivia

*McBride made the first and final outs of the 1946 World Series
*On July 2, 1948 he set the major league record of 12 putouts in left field in an extra-inning game.

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcbrito01.shtml Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcbrito01.shtml Retrosheet]
* [http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/M/McBride_Tom.stm Baseball Library]
* [http://thedeadballera.com/Obits/McBride.Tom.Obit.html The Deadball Era]