Tom Robson (baseball)

He played for the Texas Rangers for six games during the 1974 season and 17 games during the 1975 season. After batting .320 with 13 home runs with the Spokane Indians, he was acquired by the New York Yankees from the Rangers organization at the Winter Meetings on December 9, 1975.^[4] He ended his playing career in Nippon Professional Baseball with the Nankai Hawks in 1976.^[5] After retiring, he became a coach in the Rangers' organization.^[6] He spent seven years on the coaching staff of Rangers' manager Bobby Valentine, followed Valentine back to Japan to coach with the Chiba Lotte Marines 2003 and then followed him again to New York join his staff as the hitting instructor and, later, bench coach for the Mets. He served as the Cincinnati Reds' hitting coach for the first four months of the 2003 campaign under Bob Boone. In 2004, he returned to Japan and reunited with Valentine to coach for the Chiba Lotte Marines.^[7]

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