Bob Mavis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1918
Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Date of Death: 01-Mar-2005
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Bob Mavis
- Robert Henry Mavis (April 8, 1918 – March 1, 2005) was an American professional baseball player, manager and scout.
- Although he fashioned a long and successful playing career in minor league baseball as a second baseman and third baseman, his Major League career consisted of a single game.
- In the closing days of the 1949 season, on September 17, Mavis pinch-ran for Detroit Tigers catcher Bob Swift in the ninth inning of a game against the New York Yankees.
- He got as far as second base, but the game ended on a double play and he didn't score a run.
- He was never called upon again that season, and in 1950 he resumed his minor-league career. Bob Mavis was a 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m), 160 lb (73 kg) native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
- His professional career began at the advanced age of 26 when he was signed by the Little Rock Travelers of the Class A1 (now Double-A) Southern Association in 1944, during the World War II manpower shortage.
- However, once the war ended and baseball was back at full strength, Mavis proved his mettle.
- He batted over .300 for his first six seasons as a pro in the high minors, with Little Rock and the Class AAA Toledo Mud Hens of the American Association.
- He was a 31-year-old MLB rookie when the parent Tigers summoned him from Toledo for the final weeks of the 1949 season.
- All told, in 12 minor league seasons, he batted .305 in 1,292 games played.In 1954, Mavis became a manager in the Detroit farm system, then scouted for the club.
- In 1969 he switched allegiances to the Seattle Pilots as a scout, and continued in that role when the Pilots became the Milwaukee Brewers in 1970.
- He also spent 14 seasons as a scout for the Atlanta Braves, retiring after the 1990 season.
- Among the players he signed were Darrell Porter, Brett Butler and Craig McMurtry. He died in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the age of 86.
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