Three-time MLB All-Star, World Series champion, dies

Bob Skinner, a three-time All-Star outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates who went on to manage the Philadelphia Phillies and San Diego Padres, died. He was 94.

MORE: Tributes pour in for Yankees broadcaster who dies at 87

“We are saddened to relay the news of the passing of former Pirates outfielder and coach Bob Skinner,” the Pirates wrote on X on May 5. “Skinner was a member of the 1960 World Series Championship Pirates and a coach on the 1979 World Series Championship team. He made his Major League debut with the Bucs in 1954 and played nine of his 12 seasons in Pittsburgh.”

Skinner played for the Pirates from 1954-63. He was an All-Star in 1958 and again twice in 1960, when MLB staged two All-Star games every summer.

MORE: Angels announce tragic death of 2002 World Series champion at 53

In 1960, Skinner helped Pittsburgh defeat the New York Yankees in a seven-game World Series. He drove in the first run with his only hit in the series early in Game 1, which the Pirates ultimately won. Skinner didn’t play again in the series until Game 7.

By 1964, Skinner had been traded for the second time in as many seasons, this time to the St. Louis Cardinals. St. Louis would go on to face the Yankees in the World Series; like the Pirates four years earlier, they won in seven games. Skinner went 2 for 3 with an RBI to collect his second and final World Series ring as a player.

Skinner retired after the 1966 season with a career batting average of .277, 103 home runs, and 531 RBIs for the Pirates, Cardinals, and Cincinnati Reds.

MORE: Dodgers announce death of former World Series champion, coach, 4-time All-Star

A La Jolla, California native, Skinner was coaching for his hometown Padres — then a minor league affiliate of the Phillies — when he was promoted to Philadelphia as a midseason replacement for Gene Mauch in 1968.

Skinner returned as the Phillies’ manager in 1969, but he was fired after going 44-64.

As a coach, Skinner went on to work for the Padres (1970-1973), Pirates (1974-1976), the Padres again (1977), the California Angels (1978), the Pirates again (1979-1985), and the Atlanta Braves (1986-1988). He collected another World Series ring as a coach with the Pirates in 1979.