Tom McBride

Tom McBride (November 2, 1914 - December 26, 2001) was an American professional baseball outfielder who played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball. He appeared for the Boston Red Sox from 1943 to 1947 and the Washington Senators from 1947 to 1948. His most active season was 1945, when he played 100 games for Boston and batted .305 with one home run, 47 runs batted in, and 38 runs scored over 374 plate appearances. On August 4 of that season he tied a major league record by driving in six runs in a single inning, hitting a bases-loaded double and a bases-loaded triple in the fourth inning against the Washington Senators. McBride contributed to Boston's 1946 American League pennant-winning team, batting .301 in 61 games and committing no errors across 43 outfield appearances during the regular season. On May 14, 1947, he was purchased by the Washington Senators from the Red Sox, where he finished out his major league career in 1948. He played during the wartime and immediate postwar era of the 1940s.