RIP Roy Sievers 1st AL Rookie of the Year

[Gil Dobie]

RIP Roy!

He was a regular at the Roger Maris Golf Tourney. I once asked him who the best pitcher he ever face was. His answer was Bob Feller. First player in MInnesota Twins/Washington Senators history to hit 40 Home runs in a season.

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Roy Sievers, who won the American League’s first Rookie of the Year Award playing for the 1949 St. Louis Browns and became one of baseball’s leading power hitters of the 1950s with the original Washington Senators, died on Monday at his home in Spanish Lake, Mo. He was 90.

His daughter, Shawn Sievers, confirmed his death.

Playing in the outfield and at first base for 17 major league seasons, Sievers hit 318 home runs. His best season came in 1957, when he had a league-leading 42 homers and 114 runs batted in while hitting .301 for the last-place Senators. The right-handed-batting Sievers also hit home runs in six consecutive games at the Senators’ Griffith Stadium that summer, conquering its cavernous left field in matching an American League record that has since been broken.

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Here is a historic anecdote.....Sievers is a baseball player I never golfed with

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[Gil Dobie]

Here is a historic anecdote.....Sievers is a baseball player I never golfed with

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You had your chance, he golfed in about 30 Roger Maris Charity Tournaments.