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Bob Neighbors : ウィキペディア英語版 | Bob Neighbors
Robert Otis Neighbors (November 9, 1917 – presumed dead August 8, 1952) was a professional baseball player who appeared briefly with Major League Baseball's St. Louis Browns in 1939. He later served as a pilot in the Korean War and was shot down in 1952, making him the most recent major leaguer to be killed in battle. ==Baseball career== Born in Talihina, Oklahoma in 1917, Bob Neighbors had never played baseball—only fast-pitch softball—when he signed with the Siloam Springs, Arkansas Travelers of the Arkansas–Missouri League in 1936. However, he made the conversion easily, batting .279 in 118 games with 16 home runs and 86 RBIs.〔(Minor league info from SABR )〕 Neighbors produced similar numbers with the Travelers in 1937, and was called up by the Browns in September, but didn't get into a major league game. In 1938, he joined Palestine, Texas of the East Texas League and hit .301 in 139 games. The shortstop moved up to Springfield, Illinois of the Class B Three-I League in 1939, and his 14 home runs and 80 RBIs in 119 games earned him a second late-season call-up to the big club. The 21-year-old made his major league debut on September 16, 1939, and appeared in seven games, getting two hits (including a home run in Fenway Park off future Browns star Denny Galehouse) in eleven at-bats.〔()〕 Neighbors returned to the minors in 1940, batting .279 for the Toledo Mud Hens of the American Association, one step below the majors. In January 1941, Neighbors married Winifred Wilcox, and the newly married couple moved to San Antonio, where Bob played for the Texas League's San Antonio Missions in 1941. That summer, tragedy struck: while Bob was on the road with the team at the time, Winifred was hit by a car and killed. "It had a bad effect on Bob", his younger brother Morris said. "Bob was on the road and Winnie back home in San Antonio when it happened. He felt that if he had been there -- if he had a job where he wasn't traveling -- it wouldn't have happened." Neighbors struggled to a .216 average and quit organized baseball to join the army.〔(Page at Philadelphia Athletics site )〕
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