Buddy Hicks
Clarence Walter "Buddy" Hicks was an American 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 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 Braves/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.
