Joe Gaines, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetJoe Gaines
American baseball player
Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1936
Place of Birth: Brazos County, Texas, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Joe Gaines
- Arnesta Joe Gaines (born November 22, 1936 at Bryan, Texas) is an American retired professional baseball outfielder.
- He spent all or parts of seven seasons (1960–66) in Major League Baseball as a member of the Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles and Houston Colt .45s/Astros.
- Gaines threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall and weighed 190 lb (86 kg). After attending Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California, Gaines was signed by Cincinnati in 1956.
- His best season in minor league baseball came in 1957, when he batted .359 with 14 home runs and 119 runs batted in for the Visalia Redlegs of the Class C California League.
- After receiving brief trails with the 1960 and 1961 Reds, he made the team's 25-man roster in 1962, batting .231 in 60 games played as a reserve outfielder, then was traded to Baltimore that December. In 1963, Gaines occasionally spelled left-handed-hitting Boog Powell as the Orioles' left fielder and batted an MLB career-high .286.
- But Gaines got off to a poor start in 1964 and Baltimore traded him to Houston on June 15.
- He took over as the Colt .45s' regular right fielder, playing 89 games and batting .254.
- But 1965 saw Gaines lose his regular job to Rusty Staub and he reverted to a backup role; although he appeared in 100 games, he batted only .227.
- Apart from a brief stint with 1966 Astros, when he garnered only one hit in 13 at bats, Gaines spent the final three seasons of his playing career in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League.
- He retired after the 1968 season. Overall, Gaines hit .241 with 21 home runs and 95 RBI in 362 Major League games, and batted .298 with 76 homers in 949 minor-league appearances.
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