Bobby Floyd (baseball)
American baseball player
Robert Nathan Floyd (born October 20, 1943) is an American former Major League Baseball infielder. After his playing days ended, Floyd became a manager in Minor league baseball, and spent the next 30 years coaching. In 2001 and 2004, he was a major league coach with the New York Mets.
Early years
On top of playing shortstop for the Southern California champion El Segundo High School baseball team, Floyd also quarterbacked El Segundo's football team his senior year. After two years at UCLA on a baseball scholarship, Floyd signed with the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent in August 1963.
Over five seasons in the Orioles' farm system, Floyd batted .259 with nineteen home runs and 252 runs batted in. He received his first call up to the majors in September 1968. He went 1-for-9 (a double) with an RBI on a sacrifice fly.
Baltimore Orioles
Though he spent most of his minor league career at shortstop, Floyd made the Orioles' 1969 opening day roster as a back-up infielder, receiving playing time at second and third as well. Floyd batted .219 with seven runs and just one RBI, also coming on a sac fly.
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