Ray Dobens
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".Raymond Joseph Dobens (July 28, 1906 – April 21, 1980) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the Template:Mlby season. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, and attended the College of the Holy Cross, where he played baseball. The college's Varsity Club annually presents the Ray Dobens Award to its "most improved player."[1]
Listed at Script error: No such module "convert". tall and Script error: No such module "convert"., Dobens batted and threw left-handed. During his MLB trial, he recorded a 3.81 ERA with four strikeouts and 28⅓ innings of work in 11 appearances, two as a starter. He did not have a decision. The 1929 Red Sox finished eighth and last in the American League with a 58–96 record.
Dobens was general manager of the Nashua Dodgers of the old New England League. The Dodgers were the first team in the United States with Black ball players. Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers assigned Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella to the Nashua Dodgers in 1946 when Jackie Robinson was assigned to Montreal.
Dobens' professional career lasted three seasons. He died in Stuart, Florida, at the age of 73.
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