Roy Hawes
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Roy Lee Hawes
- Bats Left, Throws Left
- Height 6' 2", Weight 190 lb.
- Debut September 23, 1951
- Final Game September 30, 1951
- Born July 5, 1926 in Shiloh, IL USA
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Roy Hawes would spend four seasons in the minor leagues (1947-1950), all in class D, and the Washington Senators would obtain him from the Vincennes Citizens of the Mississippi-Ohio Valley League, where he was coming off his best year with a .328 average and 13 home runs, before the 1951 season in an unknown transaction. Roy would manage a .311 average with 17 round trippers in 136 games for the 1951 Sherman-Denison Twins of the class B Big State League.
This performance undoubtedly got the left-hand swinging first baseman his late season three game trial in the big show as he debuted with the Washington Senators on September 23, 1951. Hawes picked up one base hit in six at-bats in his only opportunity in the majors.
He continued his career in the minors where he played for a total of 14 seasons (1947-1960), six of those years with the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern Association. The first four coming in (1952-1955) and he finished up his career with the Lookouts in 1959-1960, with his best hitting average coming in the '59 season, when he hit at a .299 clip with 16 homers in 141 games at the age of 32.
" While in the Southern League Roy was termed. . . one of the Lookouts' all-time favorite players . . ." - from the book Baseball in Chattanooga
Hawes finished out his minor league and pro baseball career with the Chattanooga club in 1960, playing in three different decades, with 13 different teams and building a .271 hitting average with 167 home runs while appearing in 1,739 games.
After baseball Hawes became the owner of the Mountain Chemical Company and is now retired in Ringgold, GA.
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