Lee Bales
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Wesley Owen "Lee" Bales (born December 4, 1944) is an American former professional second baseman who played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). His professional career, which lasted from 1963 to 1968, included 31 games played for the Atlanta Braves and the Houston Astros. A switch-hitter who threw right-handed, he stood Script error: No such module "convert". and weighed Script error: No such module "convert".. The Braves signed him as a free agent in 1963. He graduated from Norwalk High School and attended Cerritos College and California State University, Long Beach.
Bales' two partial seasons in MLB were marred by offensive struggles. In 53 plate appearances, he mustered only four hits, all singles, along with eight bases on balls, one sacrifice bunt and one sacrifice fly. He had two runs batted in. Defensively, he started eight games at second base and played 82 of his total of 92 big-league innings at the "keystone sack." He made one error in 46 chances, for a .978 fielding percentage.
He now lives with his wife in Houston, Texas.
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- Lee Bales at SABR (Baseball BioProject)
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- 1944 births
- Living people
- Amarillo Sonics players
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