Born: March 23, 1944
Hometown: Greenville, MS
Year of Induction: 2007
High School Career
Coleman High School, Greenville, MS (1959-1962)
• Three sport star; football, baseball, basketball
• Signed by the Boston Red Sox for $10,000 (May 28, 1962)
Professional Career
Boston A Team, Olean, NY (1962-1965)
Boston AA Team, Pittsfield, MA, Eastern League (1965)
• Won the Triple Crown (’65)
Major League Baseball Career
• 2,034 games
• Career batting average .268, 271 HR, 1,051 RBI,
• 9 Career Gold Glove Awards
• 3 AL All-Star Team Selections
Boston Red Sox (1966-1971)
• AL All-Star Team as Rookie with 27 HRs; played in every game (’66)
• Member AL Championship Team (’67)
• Gold Glove Recipient (1967-1968, 1971)
Milwaukee Brewers (1972-1976)
• Gold Glove Recipient (1972-1976)
• Led AL in HR’s (36) & RBI (109) (’75)
• AL All-Star Team (’75)
Boston Red Sox (1977-1978)
• AL All-Star Team (’77)
• Losing team in famous one game AL playoff vs. New York on Bucky Dent HR (’78)
New York Yankees (1979)
• Hit .318 in 16 games as late season acquisition
Kansas City Royals (1979)
Boston Red Sox (1979)
• Retired as No. 12 on all-time Red Sox HR list (271)
• Played more games than any other Red Sox first baseman (988)
Managing Career
• Player-Manager, Mexican League (1980-1984)
• Manager, Mexico City Tigers, Mexican League (1982)
• Manager, Las Mochas, Mexican League Winter Baseball
• Led Mexican League teams to league titles
• Managed in Dominican Republic, Venezuela, upstate New York
• Massachusetts Mad Dogs, Northeast League (1996)
• Led team to highest winning percentage (.718) in all of pro baseball
• Managed 1st non-pitching female professional baseball player on a men’s team, Tammy Holmes
• Head baseball coach, Roxbury Community College, Boston, MA
• Manager, Rio Grande Valley White Wings, Texas-Louisiana League (’01)
• Manager, Berkshire Black Blears, Northern League, PIttsfield, MA (’02)
Special Recognition
• Featured Sports Illustrated “Where Are They Now?” section (July 2004)
• During a peroid of racial tensions in Boston, Scott showed up without fanfare at a practice of Jamaica Plain HS, a mostly African american football team. One of the Jamaica players, Daryl Williams, had been shot and paralyzed while in a huddle in a game against Charlestown, a mostly white school. Although the team had been traumatized by the shooting, Scott Helped the squad through some difficult times just by having a Boston sports star show up. He attended practices and games the rest of the season.
Hall of Fame Memberships
• Boston Red Sox (2006)
• Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame (2007)
Did You Know?
Former Red Sox teammate Joe Foy gave Scott his nickname “Boomer” beacause, he said, Scott “really put a boom on that ball” after smacking a home run off Bob Gibson. Scott coined the word “tater” in reference to home runs.
