Bill Lefebvre

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Template:Template other Wilfred Henry "Lefty" Lefebvre (November 11, 1915 – January 19, 2007) was an American professional baseball player and scout, and college baseball head coach. A southpaw pitcher and native of West Warwick, Rhode Island, LeFebvre had a nine-year playing career (1938–1944; 1946–1947). He appeared in 36 games in Major League Baseball as a member of the Boston Red Sox (six games in Template:Mlby–Template:Mlby) and Washington Senators (30 games during Template:Mlby–Template:Mlby). LeFebvre entered baseball after graduating from the College of the Holy Cross. He was listed as tall and .

In 1935, LeFebvre played for Falmouth in the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) and helped lead the team to the league title.

In MLB, LeFebvre posted a 5–5 record and a 5.03 earned run average. In 1321⁄3 innings pitched, he surrendered 162 hits and 51 bases on balls, fanning 36. He made ten starts among his 36 appearances, with three complete games. He notched three saves as a relief pitcher.

In his major league debut on June 10, 1938, in his very first at-bat, Lefebvre hit his only MLB home run over Fenway's Green Monster. The opposite-field blow, a solo shot, came off Monty Stratton of the Chicago White Sox in the midst of a mop-up assignment, as Chicago thrashed the Red Sox, 15–2.

From 1949 to 1963, Lefebvre was the head baseball coach at Brown University. He also served as a longtime scout for the Senators and Red Sox. In the early 1960s he also returned to the CCBL to manage the Dennis Clippers and Chatham Red Sox.

See also

• List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat

External links

• Career statistics from
• Bill LeFebvre biography from Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)

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