Red Borom

Championships seemed to follow second baseman Edward “Red” Borom, who was born in South Carolina in 1915.

He was part of two Georgia-Florida League championship teams in Tallahassee in 1935 and 1939.  In 1940, he played NBC World Series runner-up Mt. Pleasant (TX).  He stayed in Wichita to work for Stearman Aircraft, which would become Boeing.  In 1942, he was part of the NBC champion Boeing Bombers.

In 1943, Borom was drafted into the U.S. Army and stationed in Fort Riley where he played on a base team with Pete Reiser.  When he was discharged a year later, he went back to Wichita to work at Boeing, but got a call from the Detroit Tigers.

Borom played five games for the Tigers in 1944 and 44 games for the World Series champion Tigers in 1945.  Borom had a pinch-hit appearance in the World Series.

In 1946, the Tigers sent Borom to play for the Dallas Rebels.  Borom was one of several ex-Tigers on the team, which won the Texas League championship.  He managed Class B Texarkana (TX) for part of the 1948 season, Class C Baton Rouge in 1949 and Fort Worth in 1950.

In 1951, Borom began as a player-coach for the Sinton (TX) Plymouth Oilers who won the NBC World Series.  He played semi-pro ball until 1954 and settled in Dallas, where he died in 2011 at age 95.

For more, read Red Borom’s Society for American Baseball Research bio.