Bubba Phillips
| Bubba Phillips | |||
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| Third baseman / Outfielder | |||
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Born: February 24, 1928 West Point, Mississippi |
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Died: June 22, 1993 (aged 65) Hattiesburg, Mississippi |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 30, 1955, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 6, 1964, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .255 | ||
| Home runs | 62 | ||
| Runs batted in | 356 | ||
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John Melvin "Bubba" Phillips (February 24, 1928 – June 22, 1993) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) third baseman from Macon, Mississippi. He played for ten seasons on the Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, and Cleveland Indians, from 1955 through 1964. Phillips was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1972.
Phillips was born in West Point, Mississippi. He graduated from Macon High School where he was a football standout and softball player in 1946. He was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Southern Mississippi (then Mississippi Southern College) and was a multi-sport athlete. He excelled in baseball and football and began being watched by major league-scouts in 1946. He received "Little All-America" football honors as captain (running back) of the football team his senior year in 1950. While in college he chose a professional baseball career over a football career turning down the San Francisco 49ers of the All-America Football Conference for a contract with the Detroit Tigers organization in 1948.
Phillips was sent to the Stroudsburg Poconos (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) of the North Atlantic League where he hit .302 in 11 games played. In 1951, he moved up to Thomasville (Thomasville, Georgia) Tigers' farm club in the Class D Georgia-Florida league where he hit .329 in 138 games. In 1952, he hit .291 with the Tigers' International League farm team at Buffalo, New York.
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