{{short description|American baseball player (1908-1991)}} {{More footnotes|date=March 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Bobby Coombs |image=Bobby Coombs.jpg |position=Pitcher |bats=Right |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date|1908|2|2}} |birth_place=Goodwins Mills, Maine, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1991|10|21|1908|2|2}} |death_place=Ogunquit, Maine, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=June 8 |debutyear=1933 |debutteam=Philadelphia Athletics |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=June 6 |finalyear=1943 |finalteam=New York Giants |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Win–loss record |stat1value=0–2 |stat2label=Earned run average |stat2value=9.32 |stat3label=Strikeouts |stat3value=13 |teams = * Philadelphia Athletics ({{mlby|1933}}) * New York Giants ({{mlby|1943}}) }}
'''Raymond Franklin "Bobby" Coombs''' (February 2, 1908 – October 21, 1991) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. The {{height|ft=5|in=9+1/2}}, {{convert|160|lb|abbr=on}} right-hander played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1933) and New York Giants (1943). His career was unusual in that he went almost ten years between major league appearances.
Coombs pitched at Phillips Exeter Academy and for the Duke Blue Devils baseball team where he was coached by his uncle, Jack Coombs.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tierney |first1=John P. |title=Jack Coombs: A Life in Baseball |date=10 January 2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5229-3 |page=158 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fy9SRn5R7U0C&pg=PA158 |access-date=12 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
A native of Goodwins Mills, Maine, Coombs made his major league debut in relief on June 8, 1933, in a home game against the New York Yankees at Shibe Park.<ref>{{cite web |title=Philadelphia Athletics 14, New York Yankees 10 |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1933/B06080PHA1933.htm |website=retrosheet.org |accessdate=March 21, 2019 |date=June 8, 1933}}</ref> His final game, almost ten years later at the age of 35, was in a doubleheader against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field on June 6, 1943.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pittsburgh Pirates 18, New York Giants 1 (1) |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1943/B06061PIT1943.htm |website=retrosheet.org |accessdate=March 21, 2019 |date=June 6, 1943}}</ref>
Coombs' career totals include 30 games pitched, all in relief, a 0–2 record with 17 games finished, 2 saves, 49 earned runs allowed in 47{{fraction|1|3}} innings, and an ERA of 9.32.
Coombs coached at Williams College from 1946 to 1973, where there is now a Bobby Coombs Field.
Coombs died at the age of 83 in Ogunquit, Maine.
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