Robert Charles Christian was an American professional baseball player who played seven seasons in North America ? including parts of three seasons in the Major Leagues with the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox ? and two more years in Japan. A third baseman and outfielder, he threw and batted right-handed, stood 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighed 180 pounds. Christian was born in Chicago, Illinois, but his family moved to El Cajon, California, when he was a boy. After attending El Cajon Valley High School and Grossmont College, he signed his first baseball contract with the New York Yankees before the 1964 season. But Christian spent only one season in the Yankee farm system, with the Rookie-level Johnson City Yankees, before he was selected by Detroit in the first-year player draft, and he would play the next four seasons in the Tiger organization. After collecting a career-high 151 hits and batting .319 for the 1968 Toledo Mud Hens, Christian was recalled for his first taste of Major League action after the September 1 roster expansion. 

October 17th, 1945 in Chicago  /  Died:   Feb 20th, 1974