Buster Boguskie
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Harold McM Boguskie
- Bats Left, Throws Right
- Height 5' 7", Weight 155 lbs
- Born October 27, 1923
- Died June 16, 2001 in Nashville, TN USA
Biographical information[edit]
Buster Boguskie began his baseball career with the 1946 Hopkinsville Hoppers, hitting .354/~.431/.510 with 116 runs (4th in the KITTY League, 35 doubles (third), 16 steals and .930 fielding percentage, second-best among league shortstops. He led the league with 190 hits, was fifth in average and among the leaders in OBP and slugging. In '47, Boguskie began an 8-year run with the Nashville Volunteers in the Southern Association, hitting .252. He followed with years of .289 and .285. In 1950, Buster put up a .271/~.382/.415 season for Nashville with 10 HR, the only time after '46 he would reach double digits. 1951 yielded results of a .332 mark, one of the top 10 in the SA. In '52, the veteran had a .255/~.347/.343 line. He hit .304 in '53 and .270 in 1954 to complete his Nashville run.
In 1955, he hit .212 for the Rock Hill Chiefs as a player-manager and also spent time with the Chattanooga Lookouts (.267) and Lake Charles Lakers (.231) in his final season as a player. He coached Belmont College in 1957.
Sources include 1947, 1951 and 1953 Baseball Guides and Pat Doyle's Professional Baseball Player Database
Personal Remembrance[edit]
Buster Boguski was a veteran infielder, who also was the manager of the Class B Rock Hill Chiefs of the 1955 Tri-State League. I was a pitcher on this team. I believe this was his first managerial job. His main baseball history was as a longtime second baseman for the Nashville Vols of the AA Southern Association. Buster was a short, somewhat stocky athlete with sandy hair. He was affable, and friendly, but had difficulty managing and left the team after a month or two, and I believe returned to play for the Vols. He also lived in Nashville, and probably retired there.
---Submitted by Bill O'Donnell, User:Pitcher53
Year-by-Year Managerial Record[edit]
Year | Team | League | Record | Finish | Organization | Playoffs | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1955 | Rock Hill Chiefs | Tri-State League | 21-23 | -- | Washington Senators | -- | replaced by Peter Meachini June 17 |
Lake Charles Lakers | Evangeline League | 17-24 | -- | none | -- | replaced Jackie Bales (16-24) on June 19 replaced by Sam Tarleton (2-2) on August 1 |
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