Frenchy Bordagaray Stanley George Bordagaray Bats Right Throws Right Height 5'7 Weight 175 Born January 3, 1910 Coalinga, CA Died April 13, 2001 Ventura, CA (Alzheimer's Disease)

Batting  

 Year Ag Tm     G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS    BA  lgBA   SLG lgSLG   TB 
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1934 24 HAR    3    3    1   0   0   0    1    0    0    0   0   0   0   0  .333  .292  .333  .429    1 
 1935 25 HAR    3    4    1   0   0   0    0    1    0    0   0   0   0   0  .250  .282  .250  .411    1
 1937 27 HAR   49   79   17   2   0   2   12    5    7    9   0   0   3   0  .215  .266  .316  .414   25
 1938 28 HAR   27   27    7   0   0   0    5    4    3    3   0   0   0   0  .259  .272  .259  .411    7
 1943 33 FRE  127  492  155  35   4   9   65   66   50   51   3   1   6   2  .315  .262  .457  .403  225
 1944 34 FRE  142  600  143  29   4  13   68   59   44   85   5   0   3   6  .238  .266  .365  .402  219 
 1945 35 FRE  153  588  147  21  18   7   50   81   46   47   0   1  12   3  .250  .268  .383  .383  225 
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
  7 Seasons   504 1793  471  87  26  31  201  216  150  195   8   2  24  11  .263  .266  .392  .398  703
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 154 Gm  Avg  154  548  144  27   8   9   61   66   46   60   2   1   7   3  .263  ----  .392  ----  215
 Career High  153  600  155  35  18  13   68   81   50   85   5   1  12   6  .315  ----  .457  ----  225
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 4 Yrs.  HAR   82  113   26   2   0   2   18   10   10   12   0   0   3   0  .230  .270  .301  .413   34
 3 Yrs.  FRE  422 1680  445  85  26  29  183  206  140  183   8   2  21  11  .265  .266  .398  .395  669
+-----------+----+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 Year Ag Tm     G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS    BA  lgBA   SLG lgSLG   TB 

Postseason Batting

 Year Tm  Opp WLser  G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS    BA   SLG   TB 
+------------------+--+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+----+
 1938 HAR STL   W    1    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0  .000  .000    0
+------------------+--+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+----+
               1-0   1    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0  .000  .000    0
+------------------+--+----+----+---+---+---+----+----+----+----+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+----+


WLser shows whether the player's team Won or Lost the series.

Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards  

Stats are Year-Value-Rank

All-Star 1943

Triples 1945-18-2

Stolen Bases 1943-6-10 1945-12-10

Transactions January 1, 1934: Drafted 4th Round (31st Overall) by Harlem. December 31, 1942: Signed as a Free Agent by Fremont.

Biography Stanley George "Frenchy" Bordagaray was born Jan. 3, 1910, in Coalinga. He broke into the majors with the Chicago White Sox in 1934 before being traded to the Dodgers the following season. Bordagary played 11 years in the majors with a lifetime batting average of .283, but his lasting moment came during spring training in 1935 when he reported to camp with a mustache and goatee that he had grown for a bit part in the movie "The Prisoner of Shark Island." Though mustaches were common in the 1890s, the last player to wear one regularly had been Philadelphia Athletics catcher Wally Schang in 1914. "I was making $3,000 a year playing baseball, so I figured I could at least have fun while I was not getting rich," Bordagaray said, according to The New York Times. "But after I had it about two months, manager Casey Stengel called me into the clubhouse and said, 'If anyone's going to be a clown on this club, it's going to be me.'" Bordagaray shaved it off and it would be three decades before facial hair would make another comeback. But there was no break in Bordagaray's antics. During a game against the Chicago Cubs in 1936, he was picked off second base after hitting a double. Stengel argued with the umpire, but according to various accounts, Bordagaray agreed with the umpire's call, telling Stengel, "With the slump I'm in, I was so happy to hit a double that I did a tap dance on second base and they tagged me out between taps." When Stengel was fired by the Dodgers following the 1936 season, Bordagaray was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals He played with the Reds and Yankees before returning to Brooklyn in 1942 and finishing his major league career with the Dodgers in 1945. A short stint as a minor league manager ended when he attacked an umpire midway through the 1947 season and he was suspended for the rest of the year.