Ron Pruitt

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1951)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Ron Pruitt

|position=Outfielder / Catcher

|image=1976 Cleveland Indians Postcards Ron Pruitt.jpg

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1951|10|21}}

|birth_place=Flint, Michigan, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=June 25

|debutyear=1975

|debutteam=Texas Rangers

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=April 9

|finalyear=1983

|finalteam=San Francisco Giants

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.269

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=12

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=92

|teams=

• Texas Rangers ({{mlby|1975}})
• Cleveland Indians ({{mlby|1976}}–{{mlby|1980}})
• Chicago White Sox ({{mlby|1980}})
• Cleveland Indians ({{mlby|1981}})
• San Francisco Giants ({{mlby|1982}}–{{mlby|1983}})

}}

Ronald Ralph Pruitt (born October 21, 1951) is a former professional baseball player. He played all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball for the Texas Rangers (1975), Cleveland Indians (1976–80 and 1981), Chicago White Sox (1980) and San Francisco Giants (1982–83). Primarily an outfielder, he also played substantially at catcher.

After attending Flint Central High School, Pruitt was drafted out of Michigan State University by the Rangers in 1972. In 9 seasons he played in 341 games and had 795 at bats, 88 runs scored, 214 hits, 28 doubles, 4 triples, 12 home runs, 92 RBI, 8 stolen bases, 94 walks (7 intentional), a .269 batting average, a .345 on-base percentage, a .360 slugging percentage, 286 total bases, 7 sacrifice hits, and 7 sacrifice flies.

Pruitt was traded along with Stan Thomas from the Rangers to the Indians for John Ellis at the Winter Meetings on December 9, 1975.[https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/10/archives/veeck-has-funds-to-pay-white-sox-price-today-veeck-set-to-buy-white.html Durso, Joseph. "Veeck Has Funds to Pay White Sox Price Today," The New York Times, Wednesday, December 10, 1975.] Retrieved October 17, 2022.

On September 30, 1982, Ron had a late-season ninth inning walk-off single to overcome a 6–5 deficit to give the Giants a 7–6 win over the Astros in the midst of a division race.