finalyear death_date debutyear statvalue finalteam birth_date death_place finaldate image statlabel debutteam name throws caption birth_place debutdate bats position article_title
1914 26 may 1964 1913 .220 55 250 st. louis browns 23 march 1886 south bend , indiana september 27 buzzy wares cardinals.jpg batting average hits at bats st. louis browns buzzy wares right wares as cardinals coach newberg township , michigan september 15 right shortstop/second baseman buzzy wares

buzzy wares

clyde ellsworth `` buzzy '' wares -lrb- march 23 , 1886 -- may 26 , 1964 -rrb- was an american major league baseball shortstop during the second decade of the 20th century and a longtime coach in the majors .
born in newberg township , michigan , wares attended kalamazoo college .
he stood -lrb- 178 cm -rrb- , weighed 160 pounds -lrb- 72.6 kg -rrb- , and threw and batted right-handed .
wares played only one month and one full season of major league ball .
he came to the st. louis browns of the american league late in the 1913 campaign , and stayed through 1914 .
he appeared in 90 games , and batted .220 in 250 at bats , with 55 hits , no home runs and 24 runs batted in .
his manager , however , was branch rickey , and when rickey was the general manager of the st. louis cardinals of the national league , he hired wares as a coach in 1930 .
wares would remain on the redbirds ' staff through 1952 , a string of 23 consecutive seasons , during which time st. louis won seven nl pennants and five world series .
wares worked under eight different cardinal managers in that span .
during his minor league playing career -lrb- 1905 -- 20 -rrb- , wares twice led his league in fielding percentage , although he did commit a league-leading 107 errors in 224 games played for oakland of the pacific coast league in 1910 .
that season , however , wares led the pcl with 790 assists , and had 1,287 total chances , for a fielding percentage of .917 .
buzzy wares died at age 78 in south bend , indiana .
