60 Facts About Bob Lemon

Robert Granville Lemon was an American right-handed pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball.

Bob Lemon was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.

Bob Lemon was raised in California where he played high school baseball and was the state player of the year in 1938.

At the age of 17, Bob Lemon began his professional baseball career in the Cleveland Indians organization, with whom he played for his entire professional career.

Bob Lemon was called up to Cleveland's major league team as a utility player in 1941.

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Bob Lemon then joined the United States Navy during World War II and returned to the Indians in 1946.

Bob Lemon was an All-Star for seven consecutive seasons and recorded seven seasons of 20 or more pitching wins in a nine-year period from 1948 to 1956.

Bob Lemon was a manager with the Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees.

Bob Lemon was named Manager of the Year with the White Sox and Yankees.

Bob Lemon was named Yankees manager one month later and he led the team to a 1978 World Series title and a 1981 American League Championship.

Bob Lemon became the first AL manager to win a World Series after assuming the managerial role in the middle of a season.

The family later moved to Long Beach, California, where Bob Lemon attended Wilson Classical High School and played shortstop on the school's baseball team.

Bob Lemon was recognized as the state baseball player of the year by the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section in 1938.

Later that same year, at the age of 17, Bob Lemon began his professional baseball career in the farm system of the Cleveland Indians as a member of the Oswego Netherlands of the Canadian–American League and later that year, the Middle Atlantic League's Springfield Indians.

Bob Lemon spent the next two seasons at the Class A level with the Eastern League's Wilkes-Barre Barons as he hit.

Bob Lemon appeared in five games and collected one hit in five plate appearances.

Bob Lemon repeated the same number of games in the 1942 season and failed to record a hit.

Bob Lemon served in the United States Navy during World War II and missed the next three seasons.

Bob Lemon was the Indians' center fielder for Opening Day in 1946.

Bob Lemon resisted the idea at first, but he agreed to the change after he learned that his salary could be higher as a pitcher.

Bob Lemon credited Indians coach Bill McKechnie with helping him to adjust to his new position.

Bob Lemon finished the 1946 season with a losing record, the only one he would have until 1957, and a career-low 2.

Bob Lemon ended his breakout season with an AL-best 20 complete games.

Bob Lemon would go on to win the 1948 AL Pitcher of the Year Award.

Bob Lemon allowed three runs on seven hits and the Indians lost the game.

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Bob Lemon was listed as Cleveland's "probable pitcher" by United Press International in morning newspapers the day of the game, even though he would be working on two days of rest.

Bob Lemon allowed three earned runs on eight hits and Cleveland had the lead when Lemon was replaced by Bearden.

Bob Lemon was the only pitcher from either club to win two games in the Series.

When Bob Lemon signed a new contract before the 1951 season, the Indians made him the highest paid pitcher in baseball.

At the beginning of the 1951 season, UPI sportswriter Oscar Fraley pointed out that Bob Lemon was one of only 12 active pitchers who had earned a winning record in four consecutive seasons.

On Opening Day of the 1953 season, Bob Lemon pitched a one-hitter against the Chicago White Sox and earned a win.

Indians general manager Hank Greenberg got Bob Lemon to agree to his first reduction in contract salary since joining the organization.

Bob Lemon earned his 200th career win against the Baltimore Orioles on September 11,1956, and he hit a home run that day.

At 38, Bob Lemon went to Tucson in 1959 to attend Indians' spring training camp.

Bob Lemon retired in 1958 with 207 wins, all but ten of them occurring in a ten-year span.

On January 22,1976, Bob Lemon was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Bob Lemon says she can die happy now that I've been elected to the Hall of Fame.

In 1959, Bob Lemon became a scout and minor league pitching instructor for Cleveland.

Bob Lemon spent part of 1959 season, and part of 1960, as a coach with the MLB Indians.

In 1976, Bob Lemon served as pitching coach for the AL champion New York Yankees.

In recognition of his election to the Hall of Fame, Bob Lemon was named honorary captain of the AL team for the All-Star Game.

Bob Lemon was named the PCL's Manager of the Year by The Sporting News for the 1966 season.

In 1969, Bob Lemon returned to the PCL as manager of the Vancouver Mounties, affiliated with the expansion Seattle Pilots and Montreal Expos.

Bob Lemon said he used Indians manager Al Lopez as a model for his managing style:.

Bob Lemon became pitching coach of the Kansas City Royals for the 1970 season.

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Bob Lemon got his first major league managing job when Kansas City fired manager Charlie Metro on June 7,1970.

In 1971, Bob Lemon guided the Royals to their first winning season since the franchise began as an expansion team in 1969.

Bob Lemon finished second in the Associated Press AL Manager of the Year voting.

Bill Veeck hired Bob Lemon to succeed Paul Richards as the Chicago White Sox manager on November 16,1976.

Bob Lemon took over a Chicago team that finished in last place in the AL West in 1976.

Bob Lemon was replaced by former Indians' teammate Larry Doby.

Bob Lemon responded to his new job—and to the newspaper strike that helped calm down the atmosphere in the Yankees clubhouse—by guiding the Yankees to the 1978 pennant.

Bob Lemon became the third manager in MLB history to replace another mid-season and win the pennant.

Changes Bob Lemon made during the season included returning Thurman Munson to the team's every day catcher, putting Jackson in the clean-up spot in the batting order and becoming the regular right fielder, and pitching Ed Figueroa every fourth day.

Bob Lemon did nothing to intervene, which John thought might have prompted his dismissal.

Bob Lemon worked as a scout for the Yankees and received "several offers" from other teams to serve as manager.

Bob Lemon survived just a few weeks into the 1982 season before Steinbrenner dismissed him one last time, despite a promise from Steinbrenner he would manage the season "no matter what".

Bob Lemon had considered resigning a week before because of Steinbrenner's constant criticisms, but coach Mike Ferraro talked him out of it.

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Bob Lemon died in 2000 in Long Beach, California, where he had been a permanent resident since his career as a player.