MLB Right Fielder and Manager

8 Time World Series Champion

World War II Marine Corps Hero

(1922-2007) Born in East St. Louis, Illinois. Died in Lenexa, Kansas. Right handed batter and thrower. MLB teams played for: New York Yankees (1948-59), Kansas City Athletics (1960-61). MLB Manager: Kansas City Athletics (1961-62), Baltimore Orioles (1964-68), Oakland A's (1969). World Series Champion, Baltimore Orioles, 1966, sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers in 4 straight games. This was the first world series championship for the Baltimore Orioles franchise.

World War II Service Record, United States Marine Corps: One month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Bauer enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served with the 4th Raider Battalion and G Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines. While deployed to the Pacific Theater Bauer contracted malaria on Guadalcanal, however he recovered from that well enough to earn 11 campaign ribbons in 32 months of combat, including two Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts (for being wounded in action), and the Navy Commendation Medal. Bauer was wounded his second time during the Battle of Okinawa, when he was a sergeant of a platoon of 64 Marines. Only six survived the Japanese counterattack, and Bauer was wounded by fragmentation in his thigh. His injuries were severe enough to send him back to the United States to recuperate. Unfortunately Bauer's older brother Herman, once a solid hitting minor league catcher for the Chicago White Sox organization, never made it back home. After landing in the Normandy invasion, his brother Herman was killed in action on July 12th, 1944, and is buried in the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France.

Lifetime Batting Record: In a 14 season MLB career Hank Bauer had a .277 batting average, 164 home runs, and 703 r.b.i.'s. He played on seven World Series championship New York Yankees teams and holds the World Series record for the longest hitting streak (17 straight games). At the close of the 1959 season, Bauer was dealt by the Yankees to the Kansas City Athletics in a trade which brought them future home run king Roger Maris (1961). His overall MLB regular season managerial record was 594–544. He was a 3 time American League All Star, 1952-54. 8 time MLB World Series Champion, 7 as a player with the New York Yankees, and 1 as the manager of the Baltimore Orioles. He is a member of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame.

3 x 5 index card signature: boldly signed in blue felt tip pen, on blank side, "Hank Bauer." Very fine in person autograph.