Buddy Hicks

Clarence Walter "Buddy" Hicks is an American former professional baseball player and manager. Primarily a shortstop during his 17-year active career, he also played third base and first base. Hicks was a switch hitter who threw right-handed, standing 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 170 pounds. Hicks had a 26-game trial with the 1956 Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball, garnering ten hits in 47 at bats for a .213 batting average, with two doubles and five runs batted in. The rest of his career was spent in minor league baseball, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Tigers, Boston/Milwaukee Braves and Philadelphia Phillies organizations. In 1,854 minor league games, he batted .273 with 63 home runs. He spent a decade as a minor league manager, working for the Braves and Washington Senators, including all or parts of three seasons at the Double-A level.