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Revision as of 23:30, 5 August 2006 by Lhg39 (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Horace Meredith Clarke (born June 2, 1940, in Frederiksted, St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands) was a Major League Baseball player for the New York Yankees and the San Diego Padres from 1965 to 1974. He was signed by the Yankees as a amateur free agent in 1958. He made his Major League Baseball debut on May 13, 1965. In 1967, he became the Yankees' regular second baseman. In ten seasons, he hit .256, with 27 home runs and 304 RBI. In the space of one month in 1970, he broke up three possible no-hitters in the ninth inning. As a fielder, though, the knock was that he would not turn the double play with runners barreling in. Nobody ever took out Horace with a slide, but he held the ball after leaping.
Often referred to as the face of the poorly performing Yankees teams from 1967 to 1973, that era in Yankees history is commonly referred to as "The Horace Clarke Era".
He was sold to the San Diego Padres on May 31, 1974 for $25,000. He retired at the end of the 1974 season. After his retirement, he worked as a baseball instructor for the Virgin Islands Department of Recreation and as an assistant scout for the Kansas City Royals.
Sources
- Baseball Almanac
- Baseball Library
- Baseball Reference
- The Baseball Cube
- Horace Clarke (from Baseball in the Virgin Islands)