1925

Bob Adams was born in Holyoke, Mass on July 4, 1901. He was a big, husky youngster from the prep school Mercersburg Academy, who made the Lehigh University football team in September 1921. He also was the captain and star of the baseball team. He graduated from Lehigh with the Class of 1925 with a B.S. in Business Administration.

Bob never played minor-league ball, either before or after his time in the major leagues. In fact, his entire career in professional baseball lasted less than 30 hours. He debuted on September 22, 1925 and wrapped up his career on September 23rd.

The first game he entered was the first game on the September 22nd doubleheader at Fenway Park. He didn’t walk a man, and didn’t allow a run, though he was touched for four hits in the process of securing the final five outs of the game. The next day, he came into a game the Sox were losing 10-0, again as the third pitcher of the day.  By the time he completed four full innings of work, it was a game the Sox were losing 15-0. He finished his major league career with a record of 0-0 with a 7.94 ERA.

In 1928 he became Lehigh’s varsity baseball coach and that fall, an assistant football coach. By 1930, he was the school’s physical education director and his last year as their coach was in 1937. 

He then went to work selling coal and in the early 1960s had a position with the A. L. Watson Co. of New York City. He later formed a coal brokerage firm in the anthracite coal region.

Bob Adams passed away on October 17, 1996, at age 95, at a nursing home in Camp Hill, PA.