Edmundo "Sandy" Amorós (January 30, 1930 - June 27, 1992) was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers. Amorós was born in Havana, Cuba. He batted and thrown lefty.
Amorós had a brief and unremarkable career in the major leagues except for one, defining moment with the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was the seventh inning of Game 7 of the 1955 World Series. The Dodgers had never won a World Series in their history and were now trying to hold a 2-0 lead against their perennial rivals, the New York Yankees. Amorós came in that inning as a defensive replacement. The first two batters in the seventh inning reached base and Yogi Berra came to the plate. Yogi hit a shot into the leftfield corner that looked to be a sure double, as the Brooklyn outfield had just shifted to the right. Amorós came out of nowhere to catch the ball and then threw to second to complete the double play. The Yankees rally was crushed and the Dodgers won the series two innings later. After baseball, Amorós became a prosperous rancher in Cuba, but the coming of Fidel Castro forced him to flee to Miami, Florida, where he lived in poverty until his death.
YEAR TEAM AGE G AB R H 2B 3B HR HR% RBI BB SO SB CS AVG SLG OBA OPS
1952 Dodgers 22 20 44 10 11 3 1 0 0.00 3 5 14 1 0 .250 .364 .327 .690
1954 Dodgers 24 79 263 44 72 18 6 9 3.42 34 31 24 1 4 .274 .490 .353 .843
1955 Dodgers 25 119 388 59 96 16 7 10 2.58 51 55 45 10 5 .247 .402 .347 .749
1956 Dodgers 26 114 292 53 76 11 8 16 5.48 58 59 51 3 4 .260 .517 .385 .902
1957 Dodgers 27 106 238 40 66 7 1 7 2.94 26 46 42 3 2 .277 .403 .399 .803
1959 Dodgers 29 5 5 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 1 0 1 0 0 .200 .200 .200 .400
1960 Dodgers 30 9 14 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 0 3 2 0 0 .143 .143 .294 .437
Tigers 30 65 67 7 10 0 0 1 1.49 7 12 10 0 0 .149 .194 .275 .469
TOTALS 74 81 8 12 0 0 1 1.23 7 15 12 0 0 .148 .185 .278 .464
TOTALS 517 1311 215 334 55 23 43 3.28 180 211 189 18 15 .255 .430 .361 .791
LG AVERAGE 1331 179 356 56 12 40 2.99 168 136 160 13 9 .267 .417 .336 .753
POS AVERAGE 1322 178 349 54 13 46 3.49 183 129 176 11 9 .264 .430 .331 .761
YEAR TEAM RC RCAA RCAP OWP RC/G TB EBH ISO SEC BPA IBB HBP SAC SF GIDP OUTS PA POS
1952 Dodgers 6 0 0 .502 4.76 16 4 .114 .250 .449 0 0 1 0 0 34 50 RF
1954 Dodgers 44 5 2 .552 5.88 129 33 .217 .323 .522 0 1 3 0 4 202 298 LF
1955 Dodgers 56 -2 2 .476 4.86 156 33 .155 .309 .472 5 6 2 4 8 311 455 LF
1956 Dodgers 60 18 17 .658 6.95 151 35 .257 .455 .584 6 1 8 1 4 233 361 LF
1957 Dodgers 40 1 -3 .512 5.84 96 15 .126 .324 .486 3 3 4 1 6 185 292 LF
1959 Dodgers 0 -1 .000 0.00 1 0 .000 .000 .200 0 0 0 0 0 4 5
1960 Dodgers 1 -1 -1 .167 2.25 2 0 .000 .214 .294 1 0 0 0 0 12 17 RF
Tigers 4 -6 -7 .145 1.83 13 1 .045 .224 .300 1 0 0 1 1 59 80 CF
TOTALS 5 -7 -8 .149 1.90 15 1 .037 .222 .299 2 0 0 1 1 71 97
TOTALS 211 14 10 .527 5.48 564 121 .175 .339 .497 16 11 18 7 23 1040 1558
LG AVERAGE 188 0 0 .500 4.88 555 108 .150 .256 .452 11 7 14 11 31 1040 1500
POS AVERAGE 186 -1 0 .492 4.85 568 113 .165 .265 .459 10 8 11 11 32 1036 1482
SANDY AMOROS LEAGUE LEADERSHIP RANKINGS
1955 NL
STOLEN BASES 9TH 10;
HIT BY PITCHES T4TH 6
1956 NL
TRIPLES T8TH 8
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Last updated: 05-30-2005 04:18:05
