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Solomon Joseph Hemus (born April 17, 1923 in Phoenix, Arizona) is a retired infielder, manager and coach in American Major League Baseball.〔(Career Playing and Managing Statistics and History ) at (Baseball-Reference.com )〕 ==Baseball career== As a player (1949–59) with the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies, Hemus was primarily a shortstop, although he also saw significant time as a second baseman. He compiled a lifetime batting average of .273 in 969 games, with 51 home runs. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.〔 Hemus was a hard-nosed player known for battling with opponents and umpires. When he was traded to the Phillies in May , Hemus wrote a letter to Cardinals owner August "Gussie" Busch, expressing his pride in being a Cardinal and his gratitude to the baseball club. With his career winding down, he was reacquired by the Cardinals during the autumn of 1958 and named the St. Louis player-manager by Busch, who admired Hemus' fiery personality and remembered his letter from 2½ years before. As a player, Hemus appeared in 24 games—mostly as a pinch-hitter—in before concentrating on his managerial responsibilities. His Cardinals were inconsistent: a seventh place (71–83) finish in his rookie managerial campaign (1959) was followed by a 15-game improvement (86–68) and a leap to third place in his second season ().〔 The Redbirds followed with a poor start in and were mired in sixth place in July (at 33–41) when Hemus was replaced by one of his coaches, Johnny Keane.〔(1961 St. Louis Cardinals Schedule, Box Scores and Splits ) at (Baseball-Reference.com )〕 His career major league managing record was 190–192 (.497).〔 Hemus then served as a coach with the New York Mets (1962–63) and Cleveland Indians (1964–65). He was on manager Casey Stengel's coaching staff when the 1962 Mets expansion team ended up with a record of 40-120, still the most losses by a Major League team in a single season since the 19th Century. He managed the Mets' top farm club, the Jacksonville Suns of the AAA International League, in 1966 before leaving baseball and entering the oil business in his adopted home city of Houston, Texas. During his tenure in Philadelphia, Hemus made history when he was removed for pinch runner John Kennedy at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey, during a league game against the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 22, 1957. It marked the Major League debut of Kennedy, the first African-American player in the Phillies' history.〔(Brooklyn Dodgers 5, Philadelphia Phillies 1 ) Retrosheet Boxscore and Play-by-Play for April 22, 1957〕 Coincidentally, in 2011 Hall-of-Famer Bob Gibson indicated that racial prejudice on Hemus' part had intruded on his later role as the Cards' manager when Hemus disparaged both Gibson and teammate Curt Flood by telling them they were not good enough to make it as Major Leaguers and should try something else.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hbo.com/sports/the-curious-case-of-curt-flood/index.html )〕 Hemus' replacement, coach Johnny Keane, was a Gibson supporter who had managed the pitcher in the minor leagues. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Solly Hemus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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