Jack Burns (first baseman), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American first baseman, coach and scout in Major League Baseball
Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1907
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 18-Apr-1975
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Jack Burns (first baseman)
- John Irving Burns (August 31, 1907 – April 18, 1975), nicknamed "Slug," was an American first baseman, coach and scout in Major League Baseball.
- A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Burns stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg) in his playing days, and batted and threw left-handed. Burns' professional playing career began in 1928 in the New England League.
- After leading the Class A Western League in home runs with 36 in 1929, his contract was purchased by the St.
- Louis Browns of the American League.
- After a brief MLB trial in 1930, Burns became the starting first baseman for the Browns in 1931.
- He handled those duties until he was traded to the Detroit Tigers on April 30, 1936, for pitcher Chief Hogsett.
- He returned to the minor leagues at the end of that campaign for the remainder of his playing career.
- In Burns' finest season for the Browns, 1932, he scored 111 runs, batted .305, hit 11 homers and drove home 70 runs batted in (RBIs).
- Over his big league career (1930–36), he appeared in 890 games, and batted .280 with 980 hits, 44 homers and 417 RBIs.
- His career fielding percentage was .992.
- He led American League first basemen in assists in 1931 and 1932. Burns became a manager in the minor leagues with the 1938 Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League, replacing Dan Howley on June 27 with the Leafs in eighth place.
- He rallied the team to a fifth place standing that year, but when Toronto finished last in 1939, Burns was released.
- After World War II, he joined the Boston Red Sox farm system, managing their Eastern League affiliates in Scranton and Albany from 1949 to 1954.
- His 1952 Albany Senators won the league pennant, while his 1954 Senators were the EL playoff champions. Burns then spent five seasons (1955–59) as a Red Sox coach, working primarily as the third-base coach under manager Pinky Higgins.
- He scouted for Boston from 1960 until his death, at Brighton, Massachusetts, at the age of 67.
- As a New England-based Red Sox scout, he is credited with recommending and signing Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk, a first-round selection in the January 1967 draft.His son Bob Burns was a baseball coach at Kennett High School, North Conway, New Hampshire, from 1971–2012.
- Each year, the school presents the Jack Burns Baseball Award.
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