Bob DiPietro

{{Short description|American baseball player (1927–2012)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Bob DiPietro

|position=Right fielder

|image=Bob DiPietro.jpeg

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1927|09|01}}

|birth_place=San Francisco, California, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|2012|09|03|1927|09|01}}

|death_place=Yakima, Washington, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 23

|debutyear={{Baseball year|1951}}

|debutteam=Boston Red Sox

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 30

|finalyear={{Baseball year|1951}}

|finalteam=Boston Red Sox

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.091

|stat2label=At bats

|stat2value=11

|stat3label=Hits

|stat3value=1

|teams=

• Boston Red Sox (1951)

}}

Robert Louis Paul DiPietro (September 1, 1927 – September 3, 2012) was an American professional baseball player, an outfielder whose career lasted for 13 seasons (1947–1959). He had a brief trial as a right fielder in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox during the final month of the 1951 season. He was born in San Francisco, California.{{cite web |url=http://www.yakima-herald.com/obits/2012/09/06/bob-dipietro |title=Obituaries: Bob DiPietro | Yakima Herald-Republic Online |publisher=Yakima-herald.com |date= |accessdate=2012-09-14 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Listed at {{convert|5|ft|11|in}} tall and {{convert|185|lb}}, he batted and threw right-handed.

In four MLB games played and 11 official at bats, DiPietro collected one hit, a single in his fourth and final game September 30 against Spec Shea of the New York Yankees,Retrosheet [https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1951/B09300NYA1951.htm box score: 1951-09-30] for an .091 batting average. He did score a run or collect an RBI. As a fielder, he appeared in three games and recorded four outs with one assist and committed one error for a .833 fielding percentage. He died in Yakima, Washington, on September 3, 2012, from cancer.