Tom Tresh

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Tom Tresh
Outfielder
Batted: Both Threw: Right
MLB Debut
September 3, 1961 for the New York Yankees
Final game
September 29, 1969 for the Detroit Tigers
Career Statistics
Batting average     .245
Home runs     153
Runs scored     595
Teams
Career Highlights and Awards

Thomas Michael Tresh (Born September 20, 1937, in Detroit, Michigan) is a former Major League Baseball infielder and outfielder who played for the New York Yankees (1961-69) and Detroit Tigers(1969). Tresh was a switch-hitter and threw right handed. He is the son of All-Star catcher Mike Tresh.

[edit] Career

Tresh started his career with the Yankees as a shortstop when Tony Kubek was in military service. In 1962 he won both the MLB Rookie of the Year and The Sporting News Rookie of the Year awards, after hit .286 with 20 home runs and 93 RBI in 157 games. When Kubek returned in 1963, he was moved to left field.

Tresh averaged 114 home runs from 1962-66, with a career-high 27 in 1966, and made the American League All-Star team in 1962-63. A Gold Glove winner in 1965, he also homered from each side of the plate in three times, including a doubleheader in that season when he hit four home runs, three of them in the second game. After nine years in New York, he was sent to Detroit in the 1969 midseason. He retired a year later after being released by the Tigers.

In a nine-season career, Tresh was a .245 hitter with 153 home runs and 530 RBI in 1192 games.

Following his playing career, Tresh helped to invent the Slide-Rite, a training tool to teach sliding and diving skills for baseball, softball, football and soccer. He currently resides in Florida.

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Preceded by:
Don Schwall		 American League Rookie of the Year
1962		 Succeeded by:
Gary Peters
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