Roots With The Atlanta Braves
A graduate of Amherst County High School, Amherst, Virginia, and Lynchburg College, Bailey signed his first pro contract with the Atlanta Braves in 1979. A catcher, he threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet (1.83 m) tall and weighed 193 pounds (87.5 kg). Bailey never reached Major League Baseball as a player, hitting .210 with six home runs over four minor league seasons, mostly at the Class A level. He managed in the Atlanta organization from 1983 through 1990, winning the Southern League pennant as pilot of the Greenville Braves in 1988.
Read more about this topic: Buddy Bailey
Famous quotes containing the words roots and/or braves:
“Sprung from the West,
He drank the valorous youth of a new world.
The strength of virgin forests braced his mind,
The hush of spacious prairies stilled his soul.
His words were oaks in acorns; and his thoughts
Were roots that firmly gript the granite truth.”
—Edwin Markham (1852–1940)
“The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)