Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Bobby Dorr

Robert Constant Dorr


Born:
May 17, 1917
Bellingham, WA

Died:
July 28, 2005
Bellingham, WA


Career
1938-39 University of Washington (College)
1939-40 University of Washington (College)
1946-47 Bellingham Fircrests (PCBL)
1947-48 Bellingham Fircrests (PCBL)

Different guy than Oregon's own and Boston Red Sox legendary second baseman Bobby Doerr, and this leads to a lot of misdirection when searching the newspapers of the time. Both gentleman are essentially the same age and their names were in a lot of newspapers in the Pacific Northwest at the same time.

Dorr played basketball at UW, and later played a couple seasons for his hometown club, the Fircrests.




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