| Buddy Hicks | |
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| Infielder | |
| Born: February 15, 1927 Belvedere, California |
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| Batted: Switch | Threw: Right |
| MLB debut | |
| April 17, 1956 for the Detroit Tigers | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| July 18, 1956 for the Detroit Tigers | |
| Career statistics | |
| Batting average | .213 |
| Home runs | 0 |
| Runs batted in | 5 |
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Clarence Walter "Buddy" Hicks (born February 15, 1927, at Belvedere, California) is a retired American professional baseball player and manager. Primarily a shortstop during his 17-year active career (1944; 1947–62), he also played third base and first base. Hicks was a switch hitter who threw right-handed, standing 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighing 170 pounds (77 kg).
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.[1][2] 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.[3]
He spent a decade (1960–69) as a minor league manager, working for the Braves and Washington Senators, including all or parts of three seasons at the Double-A level.