Ron Clark

[William Malone]

Ronald Bruce Clark was born on January 14, 1943 in Fort Worth Texas.

The Philadelphia Phillies signed him as an amateur free agent in 1961. He was traded to the Minnesota Twins in 1963, and debuted for them in 1966.

Clark played parts of four seasons for the Twins, batting .182 with three home runs and 25 RBI across 134 games of action. 104 of those appearances came during the 1968 campaign, where he hit .185 with 13 RBI. Minnesota traded him to the Seattle Pilots on July 11, 1969. He had only logged five games of big league action at that point of the season.

The rest of his career was spent bouncing around the league as a journeyman backup infielder. Clark played for the Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies after leaving the Pilots. There were several minor league stops along the way as well. His final games of Major League play came with the Phillies in 1975.

He spent much of the 1980's and early 1990's jumping around the league as a first or third base coach with several big league organizations. Clark then worked as a scout for the Kansas City Royals for nearly two decades, before retiring in 2014.

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