Robert Eugene Lillard (November 12 1913 April 12 1991) was an American professional baseball player. Primarily a pitcher in Major League Baseball he began his baseball career as an infielder and was a prodigious minor league batsman slugging over 300 career home runs including 56 round-trippers as a member of the 1935 Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League.The older brother of Bill Lillard a former Major League shortstop Gene Lillard was born in Santa Barbara California. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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