Chuck Coles (baseball)

{{short description|American baseball player (1931–1996)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Chuck Coles

|position=Outfielder

|image= Chuck Coles (baseball).JPG

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date|1931|6|27}}

|birth_place=Fredericktown, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1996|1|25|1931|6|27}}

|death_place=Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 19

|debutyear=1958

|debutteam=Cincinnati Redlegs

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 28

|finalyear=1958

|finalteam=Cincinnati Redlegs

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Games played

|stat1value=5

|stat2label=At bats

|stat2value=11

|stat3label=Hits

|stat3value=2

|teams=

• Cincinnati Redlegs ({{By|1958}})

}}

Charles Edward Coles (June 27, 1931{{snd}}January 25, 1996) was an American professional baseball player whose career extended from 1950 through 1963. He had a five-game trial in Major League Baseball as an outfielder and pinch hitter for the {{mlby|1958}} Cincinnati Redlegs. Coles was born in Fredericktown, Pennsylvania, and attended Waynesburg College. He threw and batted left-handed, stood {{convert|5|ft|9|in}} tall and weighed {{convert|180|lb}}.

His career began in the Brooklyn Dodgers' organization and was interrupted by military service in 1953–1954. Coles reached double figures in home runs in nine different minor-league seasons, exceeding 24 homers for three straight years (1956–1958). At the tail end of the last of those seasons, Coles was called up by the Redlegs from the Double-A Nashville Vols after he had smashed 29 homers, scored 117 runs, driven in 107, and batted .307a Baseball Reference [https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=coles-002chminor-league statistics] playing in offense-friendly Sulphur Dell. He led the Southern Association in runs batted in and was selected the circuit's All-Star first baseman.

In his five September 1958 appearances, Coles started four contests: three as left fielder and one as center fielder; he pinch hit in a fifth. He collected two hits, including a double, in 11 at bats (.182) and two runs batted in.

Coles died in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, at 64 on January 25, 1996.