Stephen Boros Jr. was an American infielder, coach, manager, advance scout, and farm system official in United States Major League Baseball died from complications from multiple myeloma he was , 74..(September 3, 1936 – December 29, 2010)
A graduate of the University of Michigan,[1] where he received a bachelor of arts degree in literature,[2] Boros managed the Oakland Athletics (1983–84) and the San Diego Padres (1986).A native of Flint, Michigan, Boros signed a bonus contract with the Detroit Tigers in 1957. He was named the most valuable player of the Class AAA American Association in 1960 after he tied for the lead in runs batted in with 119. In his first full major league season, 1961, Boros appeared in 116 games for the Tigers as a third baseman and hit .270 with 62 runs batted in. It was his finest season. In 1962, he slugged three home runs in one game on August 6. No other Tigers player accomplished the feat until Bill Freehan did it in 1971.
Boros was then shipped to the Chicago Cubs in an offseason trade. After one season in Chicago, he finished his major league playing career with the 1964-65 Cincinnati Reds. In all or parts of seven seasons, he batted .245 with 26 home runs. He batted and threw right-handed.
Boros continued to play at the AAA level through 1969. His managing career began in the Kansas City Royals farm system in 1970. He coached on the staff of Whitey Herzog in Kansas City (1975–79). He also served as a coach with the Montreal Expos (1981–82), before taking over the Athletics, replacing Billy Martin.[3] After his managerial career, Boros returned to the coaching ranks with the Royals (1993–94) and Baltimore Orioles (1995), and was a coordinator of instruction and farm director for several MLB teams, including the Tigers.
But it was his work as an advance scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988 that really showed off his baseball smarts. Boros was part of a scout team that filled out reports that fall on the Athletics, the Dodgers' opponent in the 1988 World Series. Among the traits that Boros and his co-workers noticed, where that Oakland relief ace Dennis Eckersley tended to throw a backdoor slider on 3-2 counts to left-handed hitters. That was exactly the pitch that pinch-hitter Kirk Gibson launched off Eckersley for a memorable two-out, bottom-of-the-ninth homer to win Game One of the Series. The Dodgers went on to upset the mighty Athletics in five games.[4]
He retired from baseball in 2004 after serving as a special assistant to Tigers' general manager David Dombrowski.
Boros died in Deland, Florida, at the age of 74. He had been ill with multiple myeloma since 2007.[5]
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