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	Bobby Doerr \| BaseballLibrary.com
		In the World Series that year, Doerr batted.406 with a homer and three RBI to pace the Red Sox in their losing seven-game struggle with the Cardinals.
		Retiring after the 1951 season, Doerr later served the Red Sox as a coach and was still active as a coach with the 1980 Toronto Blue Jays.
		A's pitcher Bobby Shantz ends the slaughter with 4-plus innings of relief, as Joe Dobson is the winner for Boston.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/D/Doerr_Bobby.stm (1840 words)

	Bobby Doerr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Pershing Doerr (born April 7, 1918 in Los Angeles, California) is a former Major League Baseball player.
		Doerr broke into the majors in 1937 at the age of 19 and, in the following year, became a regular in a powerful Red Sox lineup that included Jimmie Foxx.
		Doerr was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bobby_Doerr (228 words)

	Bobby Doerr :: OBC Interview
		Bobby Doerr played second base for the Red Sox with Ted Williams, and Jimmy Foxx, and Dom DiMaggio and many others from that great era of baseball from 1937 to 1951.
		Doerr: See in the winter of 1935, I guess the San Diego Chamber of Commerce got a hold of Bill Lane who was the owner of the Hollywood team at the time.
		Doerr: What happened on that was in June when school was out of '36, I was standin' on the right side of those old batting cages they used to have.
	www.oregonstadiumcampaign.com /interview_006.html (4015 words)

	Doerr won over friends and foes - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Bobby Doerr, right, and Ted Williams were friends and teammates for 60 years.
		Doerr came of age in Los Angeles during the Great Depression, but was fortunate that his father had a job with the telephone company.
		Doerr said his friend's sometimes surly exchanges with the media were blown out of proportion.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2006/May/07/sp/FP605070362.html (1378 words)

	Bobby Doerr
		Signed by Eddie Collins on the same scouting trip that netted Ted Williams, Doerr became the team's established second baseman in 1938, at the age of 20.
		Williams called him "the silent captain of the Red Sox." A consistent fielder and a fine clutch hitter, he hit.288 lifetime and drove in 100 runs six times with a high of 120 in 1950, when he hit.294 and equaled his career high of 27 roundtrippers.
		Doerr once held the American League record by handling 414 chances without an error.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Doerr.htm (151 words)

	Boston Red Sox : History : Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although he played in the shadow of players like Ted Williams and Jimmie Foxx, Bobby Doerr has to be considered one of the greatest Red Sox players ever.
		Doerr broke his own record in those categories in 1948 when he played 73 straight games without an error.
		Doerr's abilty to deliver in pressure situations was one reason why he drove in 100 or more runs six times.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/bos/history/bos_history_timeline_article.jsp?article=1937 (443 words)

	Bobby Doerr \| The BASEBALL Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Doerr missed just one season to the war, started his career at a younger age, was a better contact hitter, and retired at the age of 33 due to back problems.
		Doerr and Ted Williams were both signed by Red Sox scout and Hall of Famer Eddie Collins.
		Doerr finished seventh in AL MVP voting in 1944, and third in 1946 (behind Ted Williams and Hal Newhouser)...
	www.thebaseballpage.com /players/doerrbo01.php (826 words)

	starbulletin.com \| Sports \| /2006/05/14/
		BOBBY WAS KNOWN for being one of the nicest guys in the American League, and Ted's personality could sometimes be best summed up, politely, as "being Ted." It couldn't have been easy to be Ted Williams' friend.
		Doerr remembers the first time he saw Williams, when Bobby was 18 and Ted not yet that old for another several months.
		You can ask Doerr how they remained close through the years, how a baseball friendship turned into one that lasted for the rest of their lives, through retirements, and marriages, and moving and the passage of time, and finally, old age, when so often, old friendships just fade away.
	starbulletin.com /2006/05/14/sports/simpson.html (1443 words)

	AllSports' MLB News - SportsTicker Baseball Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Doerr was delighted to hear that former Red Sox manager Dick Williams also was voted into the team's Hall of Fame along with second baseman Jerry Remy, first baseman George Scott, manager Joe Morgan and team executive Dick Bresciani.
		Doerr was just 18 years old and still playing minor league baseball when he was invited to spend a winter near Agness on the Rogue River.
		As you talk to Bobby Doerr you find there is not a touch of loneliness but a wonderful recall of teammates and friends and great days in baseball as well as a full life of activity at his home.
	www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/showstory.cgi?story_id=58072 (1085 words)

	Bobby Doerr Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Bobby Doerr was born on Sunday, April 7, 1918, in Los Angeles, California.
		Doerr was 19 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 20, 1937, with the Boston Red Sox.
		His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Bobby Doerr baseball stats page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=doerrbo01 (316 words)

	Bobby Doerr
		ROBERT PERSHING DOERR, born in April 1918 while GENERAL JOHN JOSEPH PERSHING was commanding the American Expeditionary Force in France, was a high school student in Los Angeles when a tremor toppled a telephone pole.
		Within three years, Bobby Doerr was a.342 hitter for San Diego and was leading the Pacific Coast League in base hits with 238.
		Collins attributed the defensive lapses to nervousness brought on by the awareness that Bobby was under scrutiny.
	www.canadianbaseballnews.com /archives/bobdoer.html (1020 words)

	American Heroes
		Bobby Doerr, at sixteen years old, was already playing second base for the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League.
		In 1944, he led the AL in slugging with a.528 pct and was second in batting with a.325 average.
		Bobby Doerr was considered a class ballplayer who never made an enemy and he always found time for baseball fans.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/american_heroes.cfm?page=21 (1491 words)

	Hyperion Books
		Bobby Doerr, the fourth teammate who had remained so close with the others, would not be able to make the trip.
		Doerr's middle name, in fact, was Pershing, after John "Black Jack" Pershing, the American general who had led the American troops in Europe in the Great War.
		Williams and Doerr were in the Hall of Fame.
	www.hyperionbooks.com /titleexcerpt.asp?ISBN=0786888679 (1068 words)

	BBTF's Hall of Merit Discussion :: Bobby Doerr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Doerr was the lesser hitter of the two any way you slice it.
		Doerr left the Red Sox Sept. 3, 1944 to travel to California, where he was inducted into the army on Sept. 19.
		As WARP sees it, Doerr is a better fielder relative to his contemporary second-basemen than Evers, but Evers' defense was quite a bit more valuable in context, and slightly more valuable than Doerr's even when his context is competition-adjusted.
	www.baseballthinkfactory.org /files/hall_of_merit/discussion/bobby_doerr (2453 words)

	The Pawtucket Times - Fans meet legends at All-Star Luncheon
		"The biggest question for Bobby Doerr was this: I always remembered Bob Feller for the Cleveland Indians was an awesome, awesome pitcher.He was a fireballer, he could bring 100 miles an hour," Doyle said.
		Hall of Fame second baseman Bobby Doerr, 86, spent his entire big-league career with the Red Sox, playing from 1937-44 and again from 1946-51.
		Doerr nearly carried the Red Sox to victory during the 1946 World Series against the Cardinals, batting.406 with one home run and three RBIs.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=12348377&BRD=1713&PAG=461&dept_id=24491&rfi=6 (776 words)

	From Cooperstown: May 2005
		Doerr is in Cooperstown for Hall of Fame Game Weekend, which will culminate with the 59th annual Hall of Fame Game on Monday.
		Bobby Doerr, 2B: His middle name came from World War I hero General John "Black Jack" Pershing, and Bobby Doerr was just as tough.
		Doerr played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox, and was a close friend of Hall of Famer Ted Williams.
	danholmes.mlblogs.com /from_cooperstown/2005/05 (3695 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		Bobby Doerr was born in Los Angeles, and began his pro career while a high school athlete in 1934.
		Following his season in San Diego, Doerr played from 1937-51 with the Boston Red Sox, where he drove in one hundred runs six times and at second base set an AL record for consecutive fielding chances without an error.
		A Yankee opponent once called him "one of the very few men who played the game hard and retired with no enemies." He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1986.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/95winter/doerr.htm (664 words)

	Bobby Doerr \| National Baseball Hall of Fame
		Ted Williams called Bobby Doerr "the silent captain of the Red Sox." He hit.288 lifetime and.409 in the '46 World Series, driving in 100 runs six times, with a high of 120 in 1950.
		Doerr once held the American League record by handling 414 chances without an error and frequently led American League second basemen in double plays, putouts and assists.
		Tell someone about Bobby Doerr by sending a free Hall of Fame Digital Postcard.
	baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/Doerr_Bobby.htm (208 words)

	Bobby Doerr \| National Baseball Hall of Fame
		Ted Williams called Bobby Doerr "the silent captain of the Red Sox." He hit.288 lifetime and.409 in the '46 World Series, driving in 100 runs six times, with a high of 120 in 1950.
		Doerr once held the American League record by handling 414 chances without an error and frequently led American League second basemen in double plays, putouts and assists.
		Tell someone about Bobby Doerr by sending a free Hall of Fame Digital Postcard.
	www.baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/doerr_bobby.htm (208 words)

	Visit by Red Sox legends DiMaggio, Doerr and Pesky honors friend, teammate's memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Brown was so moved by the excellence of his care that he arranged for the visit and interviews with the four celebrities and Jimmy Fund Chairman Mike Andrews about the pivotal fundraising role they and the entire Red Sox organization have played in Dana-Farber's growth.
		The couple, along with Doerr and Pesky, have all received the Thomas A. and Jean R. Yawkey Award – the Jimmy Fund's highest honor, named for the former Red Sox owners and DFCI benefactors.
		From achieving the first remissions of ALL and Wilm's tumor in pediatric patients in the '40s and '50s, to the development of Gleevec, the first "smart" cancer drug, in the late '90s, Dana-Farber researchers and clinicians have been at the forefront of discovery in cancer care and research.
	www.dfci.harvard.edu /abo/news/press/red-sox-dimaggio-doerr-pesky-honors-friend.asp (672 words)

	CNN.com - 'Teammates' once, friends forever - Jun. 13, 2003
		The heart of the Red Sox: Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Ted Williams.
		Doerr, Pesky, DiMaggio -- they wanted to talk, talk about their careers and their lives and Ted, especially Ted, whom Dom and Bobby had driven down to Florida to visit in his waning days.
		Doerr and Pesky, the second baseman and shortstop, were a terrific double-play combo, and they both could hit a ton as well.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/books/06/13/halberstam.teammates (1008 words)

	Bobby Doerr - Red Sox Legends - GoSoxGo.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bobby Doerr - Red Sox Legends - GoSoxGo.com
		Dubbed "the silent captain of the Red Sox" by teammate Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr was a player for the Boston Red Sox from 1937 to 1950.
		During that time, he compiled a.288 batting average, with 223 home runs and 1,247 runs batted in.
	www.gosoxgo.com /players/legends/bobby-doerr.html (130 words)

	TheOregon Stadium Campaign :: The Johnny Pesky Interview
		Bobby has been back here too since his wife passed away.
		Bobby lives here in Oregon and you were born and raised here in Portland.
		Dom came in ’38 and Ted was optioned to Minneapolis in ’38, but Bobby Doerr stayed with the ball club as an extra.
	www.oregonstadiumcampaign.com /pesky_interview.htm (7556 words)

	Bobby Doerr Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
		Bobby Doerr is one of the four greatest teammates in Red Sox history along with Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, and Johnny Pesky.
		View Bobby Doerr's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines, a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit
		Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org.
	www.baseball-reference.com /d/doerrbo01.shtml (599 words)

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