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Jan 29, 1904 High Point, North Carolina, United States Died on 25 Sep 2002 (aged 98)
American baseball player and coach
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About Ray Hayworth
- Raymond Hall Hayworth (January 29, 1904 – September 25, 2002) was an American professional baseball player, manager and scout.
- He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball between 1926 and 1945, most notably as a member of the Detroit Tigers team that won two consecutive American League pennants in 1934 and 1935 and won the 1935 World Series.
- He was employed in professional baseball for nearly 50 years from 1926 to 1973. A native of High Point, North Carolina, Hayworth played professional baseball for 15 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers (1929–1938), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939, 1944–1945), New York Giants (1939), and St.
- Louis Browns (1942).
- He posted a .265 career batting average with five home runs and 238 RBIs in 699 games played.
- A strong defensive catcher, he set an American League record by handling 438 total chances as a catcher without an error. Following his playing career, Hayworth managed the Fort Worth Cats in 1946 and Macon Peaches in 1947.
- He also scouted the Negro Leagues for Branch Rickey and the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946 and then continued scouting for more than 25 years for the Chicago Cubs (1947–1959), the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves (1960–1970), and the Montreal Expos (1971–1973).
