Keith Lampard

{{Short description|English baseball player (1945–2020)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Keith Lampard

|position=Outfielder

|image=

|bats=Left

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1945|12|20}}

|birth_place=Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

|death_date={{Death date and age|2020|8|30|1945|12|20}}

|death_place=Lincoln City, Oregon, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 15

|debutyear=1969

|debutteam=Houston Astros

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=October 1

|finalyear=1970

|finalteam=Houston Astros

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.238

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=1

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=7

|teams=

• Houston Astros (1969–1970)}}

Christopher Keith Lampard (December 20, 1945 – August 30, 2020) was a professional baseball player.

Born in Warrington, Cheshire, England, to English parents, Lampard and his family emigrated to Oregon when he was three years old. He grew up in Portland, where he played Little League baseball, and attended the University of Oregon. Lampard played in the 1958 Little League World Series, alongside fellow future major-leaguer, Rick Wise.{{cn|date=October 2022}}

An outfielder, Lampard was drafted by the Houston Astros in the second round of the 1965 Major League Baseball Draft and spent nine seasons in professional baseball, including the final weeks of {{baseball year|1969}} and much of {{baseball year|1970}} in the Major Leagues with the Astros.

Lampard stood {{convert|6|ft|2|in}} tall and weighed {{convert|197|lb}} (14 stone 1), threw right-handed and batted left-handed. In his 1969 audition, in which he mostly served as a pinch hitter, Lampard collected three hits in 12 at bats — the biggest of which was a walk-off pinch-hit home run against Wayne Granger on September 19 that gave Houston a come-from-behind 3–2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.{{Cite web |title=Retrosheet Boxscore: Houston Astros 3, Cincinnati Reds 2 |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1969/B09190HOU1969.htm |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=www.retrosheet.org}} The home run came in Lampard's fourth Major League game, and would be the only four-base blow of his 62-game MLB career. Altogether, Lampard had 20 hits, with eight doubles and one triple, as a Major Leaguer.

Besides, Lampard was an outstanding Minor League batsman, hitting over 100 career home runs during his 1965–1973 career.{{Cite web |title=Keith Lampard Minor & Winter Leagues Statistics |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=lampar001chr |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=Baseball-Reference.com |language=en}}

Lampard died on August 30, 2020.{{cite web |title=Keith Lampard - Obituary |url=https://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n=keith-lampard&pid=196967453 |website=obits.oregonlive.com |accessdate=23 October 2020 |language=en}}