{{Short description|American baseball player (1915–2007)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Bill Lefebvre | image = Bill Lefebvre.jpg | position = Pitcher | birth_date = November 11, 1915 | birth_place = West Warwick, Rhode Island, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2007|1|19|1915|11|11}} | death_place = Largo, Florida, U.S. | bats = Left | throws = Left | debutleague = MLB | debutdate = June 10 | debutyear = 1938 | debutteam = Boston Red Sox | finalleague = MLB | finaldate = September 29 | finalyear = 1944 | finalteam = Washington Senators | statleague = MLB | stat1label = Win–loss record | stat1value = 5–5 | stat2label = Earned run average | stat2value = 5.03 | stat3label = Strikeouts | stat3value = 36 | teams = * Boston Red Sox (1938–1939) * Washington Senators (1943–1944) }} '''Wilfred Henry''' "'''Lefty'''" '''Lefebvre''' (November 11, 1915 – January 19, 2007) was an American professional baseball player and scout, and college baseball head coach. A southpaw pitcher and native of West Warwick, Rhode Island, LeFebvre had a nine-year playing career (1938–1944; 1946–1947). He appeared in 36 games in Major League Baseball as a member of the Boston Red Sox (six games in {{mlby|1938}}–{{mlby|1939}}) and Washington Senators (30 games during {{mlby|1943}}–{{mlby|1944}}). LeFebvre entered baseball after graduating from the College of the Holy Cross. He was listed as {{convert|5|ft|11|in}} tall and {{convert|180|lb}}.
In 1935, LeFebvre played for Falmouth in the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) and helped lead the team to the league title.<ref>{{cite web|author=Bill Nowlin |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/3749fdf4 |title=Bill LeFebvre |publisher=sabr.org |accessdate=August 30, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = FALMOUTH WINS FIRST LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP IN THREE YEARS | pages = 7 | newspaper = Falmouth Enterprise | location = Falmouth, MA | date = September 5, 1935 | url = http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Falmouth/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=FEN%2F1935%2F09%2F05&id=Ar00700&sk=83CA5302&viewMode=image | archive-date = December 24, 2019 | access-date = November 13, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191224052137/http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Falmouth/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=FEN%2F1935%2F09%2F05&id=Ar00700&sk=83CA5302&viewMode=image | url-status = dead }}</ref>
In MLB, LeFebvre posted a 5–5 record and a 5.03 earned run average. In 132<small>{{fraction|1|3}}</small> innings pitched, he surrendered 162 hits and 51 bases on balls, fanning 36. He made ten starts among his 36 appearances, with three complete games. He notched three saves as a relief pitcher.
In his major league debut on June 10, 1938, in his very first at-bat, Lefebvre hit his only MLB home run over Fenway's Green Monster. The opposite-field blow, a solo shot, came off Monty Stratton of the Chicago White Sox in the midst of a mop-up assignment, as Chicago thrashed the Red Sox, 15–2.<ref>Retrosheet [https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1938/B06100BOS1938.htm box score: 1938-06-10]</ref>
From 1949 to 1963, Lefebvre was the head baseball coach at Brown University. He also served as a longtime scout for the Senators and Red Sox. In the early 1960s he returned to the CCBL to manage the Dennis Clippers<ref>{{cite news | title = Talking Sports | pages = 5 | newspaper = Dennis-Yarmouth Register | location = Yarmouth, MA | date = July 8, 1960 | url = http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Yarmouth/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=SDYR%2F1960%2F07%2F08&id=Ar00500&sk=98C62367&viewMode=image | archive-date = September 23, 2020 | access-date = August 31, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200923033035/http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Yarmouth/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=SDYR%2F1960%2F07%2F08&id=Ar00500&sk=98C62367&viewMode=image | url-status = dead }}</ref> and Chatham Red Sox.<ref>{{cite news | title = Chatham Chatter | pages = 19 | newspaper = The Cape Codder | location = Orleans, MA | date = June 11, 1964 | url = https://snow-library.com/viewer/1701?medianame=1964_thecapecodder_vol19_issue14_orleans_000019 }}</ref>
==See also== * List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat
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==External links== {{baseballstats|br=l/lefebbi01}} *Bill LeFebvre biography from [https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/3749fdf4 Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)]
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