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Hank Bauer autographed photoIn a 14-season career, Bauer had a .277 batting average with 164 home runs and 703 RBI in 1544 games. He won the World Series with the Yankees seven times and holds the World Series record for the longest hitting streak, at 17 games. At the close of the 1959 season, Bauer was dealt to the Kansas City Athletics in the trade that brought future home run king Roger Maris to the Bronx. This deal is often cited among the worst examples of the Yankees-A's numerous trades during the late 1950s, which usually proved to be one-sided in New York's favor.
In 1961, the year Maris broke Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, Bauer, at 38 years of age, was coming to the end of the line. On June 19, he was named playing-manager of the Athletics, and he retired from the field a month later. In Bauer's first stint at A's pilot, through the end of the 1962 season, Kansas City won 107 games and lost 157 (.405) and twice finished ninth in the ten-team American League of the day.
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