Jake Gibbs

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Full Name: Jerry Dean Gibbs	Primary Position: C
Height/Weight: 6' 0"/180	First Game: September 11, 1962
Birthdate: November 7, 1938	Final Game: September 29, 1971
Birthplace: Grenada, Mississippi	MLB Experience: 10 years
Bat/Throw: Left/Right

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1 Biography
2 Statistics
- 2.1 Batting Stats
- 2.2 Fielding Stats
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Jake Gibbs (Jerry Dean Gibbs) was born on November 7, 1938 in Grenada, Mississippi. He made his Major League debut on September 11, 1962 for the New York Yankees. In 1966, his rookie year, he hit .258 with 3 home runs and 20 RBI. Gibbs played for the New York Yankees for his entire 10 year career.

Gibbs was also an All American quarterback for Ole Miss, starting on two of the best Rebel teams in history, the 1959 team which scored 350 points and gave up only 21 losing only to LSU on Billy Cannon's famous Halloween night punt return, a loss they avenged in the Sugar Bowl with a 21-0 victory behind 2 TD passes by Gibbs. Gibbs senior season in 1960, he quarterbacked the Rebels to an undefeated season, a second Sugar Bowl victory and a share of the National Championship.

After his retirement from the Yankees, Gibbs returned to Ole Miss and coached baseball for a number of seasons.

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Year	Team		G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG	2B	3B	BB	SO	HBP	SH	SB	IBB	GDP
1962	NY	A	2	0	2	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1963	NY	A	4	8	1	2	0	0	.250	.250	.250	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
1964	NY	A	3	6	1	1	0	0	.167	.167	.167	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
1965	NY	A	37	68	6	15	2	7	.221	.267	.324	1	0	4	20	1	1	0	0	0
1966	NY	A	62	182	19	47	3	20	.258	.327	.341	6	0	19	16	0	0	5	2	6
1967	NY	A	116	374	33	87	4	25	.233	.291	.289	7	1	28	57	4	2	7	1	8
1968	NY	A	124	423	31	90	3	29	.213	.270	.277	12	3	27	68	6	4	9	5	8
1969	NY	A	71	219	18	49	0	18	.224	.294	.283	9	2	23	30	0	0	3	9	3
1970	NY	A	49	153	23	46	8	26	.301	.331	.542	9	2	7	14	1	0	2	1	4
1971	NY	A	70	206	23	45	5	21	.218	.270	.335	9	0	12	23	3	2	2	1	3
Total			538	1639	157	382	25	146	.233	.289	.321	53	8	120	231	15	9	28	19	32

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Year	Team		POS	G	GS	INN	PO	A	ERR	DP	TP	PB	SB	CS	PkO	AVG
1962	NY	A	3B	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
1963	NY	A	C	1	1	13	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
1964	NY	A	C	2	1	14	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
1965	NY	A	C	21	15	147.2	106	10	1	1	0	1	8	5	1	.991
1966	NY	A	C	54	49	438.2	295	27	4	4	0	2	13	13	1	.988
1967	NY	A	C	99	93	844	582	55	16	7	0	5	41	36	0	.975
1968	NY	A	C	120	111	1018	642	55	6	7	0	5	34	30	1	.991
1969	NY	A	C	66	66	567	364	31	4	6	0	5	19	12	0	.990
1970	NY	A	C	44	42	360	208	19	3	1	0	1	10	7	1	.987
1971	NY	A	C	51	48	431.1	229	12	3	1	0	1	15	5	0	.988
Total			3B	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Total			C	458	426	3833.2	2441	209	37	27	0	20	140	108	4	.986

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Signed as an amateur free agent by New York Yankees (1961).

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