Leroy Powell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1933
Place of Birth: Flint, Michigan, United States
Date of Death: 26-Apr-2014
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Leroy Powell
- Robert Leroy Powell (October 17, 1933 – April 26, 2014), identified by his middle name on baseball cards but who preferred to be known as Bob Powell, was an American professional baseball player.
- He threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg). The graduate of Michigan State University signed a $36,000 "bonus baby" contract with the Chicago White Sox in 1955.
- An outfielder when he signed, Powell was kept on the ChiSox' Major League roster for 1955, 1956 and part of 1957 under the Bonus Rule of the time.
- He appeared in only two Major League Baseball games as a pinch runner — both times against the Kansas City Athletics.
- On September 16, 1955, he ran for slow-footed White Sox pinch hitter Ron Northey, who had singled, and was erased on a force play at second base on the first pitch to the next hitter, Minnie Miñoso.
- On April 20, 1957, he ran for another pinch hitter, Walt Dropo, advanced to second base on a hit by Luis Aparicio and then scored his only MLB run on a single by Nellie Fox.
- Both Aparicio and Fox are now in the Baseball Hall of Fame. After seeing Powell throw batting practice for his teammates, 1955–1956 White Sox manager Marty Marion converted him into a pitcher.
- Powell spent the latter half of the 1956 season serving in the U.S.
- military, then returned to the White Sox roster for the start of 1957, when he made his final MLB appearance.
- Chicago was able to send him to the minor leagues later in 1957, but Powell struggled as a pitcher in the Class A Western League — although he batted over .300 in 1957 — and left baseball after the 1958 season.
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