Tink Riviere

Arthur Bernard Riviere

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 10", Weight 167 lb.

• Debut April 15, 1921
• Final Game July 16, 1925
• Born August 2, 1899 in Liberty, TX USA
• Died September 27, 1965 in Liberty, TX USA

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Biographical Information

Tink Riviere was a pitcher 11 years (1919-1931), two in the Majors (1921;1925) and 10 in the minors (1919-1920;1922-1923;1925-1926;1928-1931); losing two years to suspensions. Riviere was born on Wednesday, August 2, 1899, in Liberty, TX. He broke into Organized Baseball at age 19 in 1919. Riviere was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 15, 1921, with the St. Louis Cardinals.

He played for the Cardinals (1921) and returned to the minors with the Milwaukee Brewersof the American Association (1922) and the Syracuse Stars of the International League (1923). Suspended for 1924, he came up with the Chicago White Sox (1925) where he played his final MLB game on July 16, 1925 at age 25. He returned to the minors with Dallas of the Texas League (TL) (1926); suspended again in 1927; San Antonio (TL) (1928); Beaumont (TL) (1929-1930) and the Houston Buffaloes (TL) (1931); ending his baseball career at age 31.

Overall in MLB (mostly in 1921), he was (1-0) with 0 complete games in 2 games started, 16 strikeouts, 27 walks and 0 shutouts in 43.0 innings pitched with an ERA of 6.28 and a WHIP of 1.814 in 21 games. In 1926, his best year in the minors, he was (14-11) with an ERA of 3.87. Overall in the minors, he was (44-52).

Riviere served in the U.S. Army during World War II (BN). For 30 years he was an agent for Southland Life Insurance Company. He died at age 66 at Kersting Hospital in Houston, TX following a heart attack on September 27, 1965 and is buried at Catholic Cemetery in Liberty, TX.

Sources

Principal sources for Tink Riviere include newspaper obituaries (OB), government Veteran records (VA,CM,CW), Stars & Stripes (S&S), Sporting Life (SL), The Sporting News (TSN), The Sports Encyclopedia:Baseball 2006 by David Neft & Richard Cohen (N&C), old Who's Who in Baseballs (none) (WW), old Baseball Registers (none) (BR) , old Daguerreotypes by TSN (none) (DAG), Stars&Stripes (S&S), The Baseball Necrology by Bill Lee (BN), Pat Doyle's Professional Ballplayer DataBase (PD), The Baseball Library (BL), Baseball in World War II Europe by Gary Bedingfield (GB) and The Texas League in Baseball, 1888-1958 by Marshall D. Wright; The International League: Year-by-year Statistics, 1884-1953 by Marshall D. Wright; and The American Association: Year-By-Year Statistics for the Baseball Minor League, 1902-1952 by Marshall D. Wright and independent research by Walter Kephart (WK) and Frank Russo (FR) and others.

Related Sites

• Tink Riviere at the Baseball Almanac
• Bio at Baseball Page
• and a full Bibliography from SABR's The Baseball Index (TBI)