Lee Bales
Wesley Owen "Lee" Bales (born December 4, 1944) is an American former professional baseball player, a second baseman whose six-season (1963–1968) career included 31 games played for the 1966 Atlanta Braves and the 1967 Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. A switch-hitter who threw right-handed, he stood 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and weighed 165 pounds (75 kg). Bales was born in Los Angeles, California. The Braves signed him as a free agent in 1963. He graduated from Norwalk High School and attended Cerritos College and California State University, Long Beach.
| Lee Bales | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Second baseman / Third baseman | |||
| Born: December 4, 1944 Los Angeles, California | |||
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| MLB debut | |||
| August 7, 1966, for the Atlanta Braves | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| October 1, 1967, for the Houston Astros | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .093 | ||
| On-base percentage | .231 | ||
| Putouts | 21 | ||
| Teams | |||
Bales' two partial seasons in MLB were marred by offensive struggles. In 53 plate appearances, he mustered only four hits, all singles, along with eight bases on balls, one sacrifice bunt and one sacrifice fly. He had two runs batted in. Defensively, he started eight games at second base and played 82 of his total of 92 big-league innings at the "keystone sack." He made one error in 46 chances, for a .978 fielding percentage.
He now lives with his wife in Houston, Texas.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball-Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet
- Lee Bales at SABR (Baseball BioProject)
- Lee Bales at Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Professional Baseball League)