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INFIELDER
MANAGER & STAFF Batted Left Full Name Edwin Lee Mathews
Threw Right
Height 6-1
Weight 200
Born Texarkana, TX
DOB 10/13/1931
Died: 2/18/2001 in LaJolla, CA
Years With Braves 1952-66 Number Retired: 1969
Eddie Mathews is the only player in franchise history he batted .306 with a league-best 46 homers and 114
to play for the Braves in Boston (1952), Milwaukee (1953- RBI. He played for the 1957 World Series champions (his
PLAYER BIOS baseman ranks second in club annals with 493 home runs; NL pennant winners. Following the 1966 season, Mathews
65) and Atlanta (1966). The nine-time N.L. All-Star third
10th-inning two-run homer won Game 4) and the 1958
and third with 2,223 games, 8,049 at-bats, 1,452 runs,
was traded to the Houston Astros, and he became the
2,201 hits, 338 doubles, 1,388 RBI and 4,158 total bases. seventh player in baseball history to hit 500 career home
Mathews finished third in Rookie of the Year balloting runs July 14, 1967. He subsequently played for the Detroit
in 1952, and the following year was runner-up for Most Tigers in 1967 and 1968. Mathews returned to the Braves
Valuable Player after leading the NL with 47 home runs as a coach in 1971 and served as manager from 1972
SEASON IN REVIEW a .302 batting average and a franchise-record 135 RBI. inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1978
(tied for the second-most in Braves’ history) to go with
to 1974, compiling a 149-161-1 record. Mathews was
Mathews also was the MVP runner-up in 1959, when
and into the Braves Hall of Fame in 1999.
Complete Record

AB
RBI
Year Club AVG 146 G 238 103 R 158 H 2B 3B 3 9 HR 106 BB SO SB 5 4
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT 1951 Milwaukee .289 145 528 9 110 2 128 3 23 0 5 0 4 5 8 25 6 1 135 5 --- 115 0 0 6 1
High Point
17
1949
62
.366
62
20
87
56
---
---
Atlanta
24
---
552
.286
32
1950
---
.333
---
12
37
128
---
Atlanta
---
37
23
29
.242
59
58
80
1952
Boston
1953
31
47
175
99
579
157
.302
Milwaukee
83
113
61
21
96
1954
138
Milwaukee
141
.289
101
499
41
1955
21
1956 Milwaukee .290 138 476 108 144 23 4 5 2 40 103 109 98 10 3 6
103
Milwaukee
552
150
95
37
91
.272
86
151
1957 Milwaukee .292 148 572 109 167 28 9 32 94 90 79 2
77
.251
97
1958 Milwaukee .306 149 546 118 137 18 1 8 31 114 85 85 5 2
BRAVES HISTORY 1960 Milwaukee .306 153 548 108 144 23 7 6 6 4 39 124 101 113 12 4 3 7
80
1959
46
Milwaukee
16
148
182
71
594
19
152
111
.277
1961
Milwaukee
95
91
93
32
175
152
572
103
142
25
90
536
152
90
.265
29
1962
106
Milwaukee
158
84
82
1963
27
.263
119
124
547
Milwaukee
23
1964
141
74
117
19
.251
73
Milwaukee
32
546
110
1965 Milwaukee .233 156 502 83 137 23 1 0 23 95 85 100 2 1
77
1966 Atlanta .250 134 452 72 113 21 4 16 53 63 82 1
1967 Houston .238 101 328 39 78 13 2 10 38 48 65 2
Detroit .231 36 108 14 4 25 0 3 0 0 6 3 19 8 15 5 23 0 0
11
.212
12
52
1968
Detroit
31
OPPONENTS Minor Totals .307 2324 8377 1491 2279 351 3 16 0 503 1426 1424 1452 68 9 0
927
56
196
190
285
257
49
27
A.L. Totals
.225
20
35
36
9
18
160
67
72
N.L. Totals
.272
Braves Totals
68
512
72
8537
2315
1487
354
1444
2391
1509
Major Totals .273 2223 8049 1452 2201 338 70 493 1388 1376 1387 66
.271
1453
World Series Record
Year Club, Opp AVG G AB R 4 H 5 2B 3 3B 0 HR 1 RBI BB SO 5 SB 0
MISCELLANEOUS 1958 Mil. vs. NY .200 16 25 3 3 0 7 10 1 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 15 1 11 1 0 1 1
8
22
7
4
.227
Mil. vs. NY
1957
4
6
.160
7
1968
Det. vs. StL.
.333
2
0
17
W.S. Totals
50
1
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