Coordinates | 40°41′38″N80°18′29″N |
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Name | Ray Dandridge |
Position | Third baseman |
Birth date | August 31, 1913 |
Birth place | Richmond, Virginia |
Death date | February 12, 1994 |
Death place | Palm Bay, Florida |
Bats | Right |
Throws | Right |
Debutleague | Negro leagues |
Debutyear | 1933 |
Debutteam | Detroit Stars |
Finalyear | 1955 |
Finalteam | Bismarck Barons |
Teams | |
Highlights | |
Hoflink | National Baseball Hall of Fame |
Hoftype | National |
Hofdate | 1987 |
Hofmethod | Veterans Committee |
Raymond Emmitt Dandridge (August 31, 1913 - February 12, 1994) was an American third baseman in baseball's Negro leagues. He was born in Richmond, Virginia. Dandridge was one of the greatest fielders in the history of baseball, and one of the sport's greatest hitters for average, but unfortunately his name is not familiar to the casual baseball fan. Moreover, because of the "gentlemen's agreement" not to allow African Americans in Major League Baseball, Dandridge was dismissed as being too old by the time of integration. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987.
Dandridge was discovered by Detroit Stars manager Candy Jim Taylor in 1933 while playing for a local Richmond team. He played for the Stars in 1933 and for the Newark Dodgers, which were later called the Newark Eagles, from 1934 to 1938. In 1939, badly underpaid by the Eagles, Dandridge moved to the Mexican League, where he played for nine of the next ten seasons, rejoining the Eagles for one last season in 1944. In 1948-49 he returned to the United States as a player-manager for the New York Cubans. Although more than capable of playing in the majors, he never got the call to the big leagues, instead spending the last years of his career as the premier player in Triple-A baseball, batting .362 and leading all American Association third basemen in fielding percentage in 1949. He batted .360 in his last minor league season in . His story is one of the great tragedies as a hall of famer never received the opportunity to play in the major leagues.
In spite of regularly batting over .350, Dandridge's greatest talent was fielding. Monte Irvin, who played both in the Negro leagues and the major leagues and saw every great fielding third baseman of two generations, said that Dandridge was the greatest of them all, adding that Dandridge almost never committed more than two errors in a season. Dandridge was also a tutor to the young Willie Mays.
After retiring from playing in 1955, Ray Dandridge worked as a scout for the San Francisco Giants and later ran a recreation center in Newark, New Jersey. He lived his final years in Palm Bay, Florida. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in . He died at age 80 in Palm Bay.
Dandridge's nephew, Brad Dandridge, was a professional baseball player who played from 1993 to 1998, primarily in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.
Category:1913 births Category:1994 deaths Category:National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Category:Negro league baseball players Category:Detroit Stars players Category:Newark Eagles players Category:People from Richmond, Virginia Category:Baseball players from Virginia
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