Carlos Bernier


Carlos Eugene Bernier Rodríguez was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player, an outfielder who played one full season of Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Born in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, he threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed.

Career

Bernier's professional career extended for 17 seasons. In addition to the 105 games he played for the 1953 Pirates, he appeared in an even 2,200 games in minor league baseball, with 1,725 games played at the highest levels then in existence. Bernier batted.298 with nearly 2,300 hits and exactly 200 home runs as a minor leaguer. In 1952, Bernier was named the PCL's Rookie of the Year by the Pacific Coast League Baseball Writers Association.
For the 1953 Pirates, Bernier collected 66 hits, including seven doubles, eight triples, and three home runs, in 310 at bats. On May 2, Bernier tied a modern major league record with three triples in a game, becoming the 15th player to perform this feat in the post-Deadball era, and the first since Ben Chapman in 1939, as well the first National League player since in 1929.
In 1989, Bernier committed suicide by hanging.

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