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Hank Bauer, 1922-2007
2007-02-09 12:05
by Bob Timmermann

Former Yankee (and Athletics) outfiedler, as well as the manager of the World Series champion Baltimore Orioles in 1966, Hank Bauer passed away in the Kansas City area at age 84.

Bauer has the longest hitting streak in World Series history, 17 straight games from 1956 through 1958. Bauer had a hit in all seven games of the 1956 and 1957 series and in the first three games of the 1958 series before Warren Spahn of Milwaukee held him hitless in Game 4.

At the end of the 1959 season, the Yankees traded Bauer, along with Don Larsen, Norm Siebern, and Marv Throneberry to Kansas City in exchange for Joe DeMaestri, Kent Hadley, and an outfielder named Roger Maris.

Bauer managed Steve Barber and faced Lou Burdette in the 1957 and 1958 World Series.

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