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colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Died:</b> July 13, 2008<span style="display:none">(2008-07-13)</span> (aged 73)<br /><a href="/wiki/St._Louis,_Missouri" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Louis, Missouri">St. Louis, Missouri</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="ib-baseball-bio-batsthrows"><div><b>Batted:</b> Switch</div><div><b>Threw:</b> Right</div></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">MLB debut</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">September 25, 1963, for the St. Louis Cardinals</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Last MLB appearance</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">July 30, 1970, for the Pittsburgh Pirates</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">MLB statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">Batting average</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">.249</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">Home runs</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Runs_batted_in" class="mw-redirect" title="Runs batted in">Runs batted in</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">20</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;"><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Teams</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-teams"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> (<a href="/wiki/1963_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1963 Major League Baseball season">1963</a>, <a href="/wiki/1965_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1965 Major League Baseball season">1965</a>, <a href="/wiki/1967_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1967 Major League Baseball season">1967</a>–<a href="/wiki/1969_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1969 Major League Baseball season">1969</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> (<a href="/wiki/1970_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1970 Major League Baseball season">1970</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Career highlights and awards</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-highlights"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <ul><li>3× <a href="/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series">World Series</a> champion (<a href="/wiki/1967_World_Series" title="1967 World Series">1967</a>, <a href="/wiki/1971_World_Series" title="1971 World Series">1971</a>, <a href="/wiki/1982_World_Series" title="1982 World Series">1982</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>David William Ricketts</b> (July 12, 1935 – July 13, 2008) was an <a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">American</a> <a href="/wiki/Catcher" title="Catcher">catcher</a> and <a href="/wiki/Coach_(baseball)" title="Coach (baseball)">coach</a> in <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> who played parts of six seasons (<a href="/wiki/1963_in_baseball" title="1963 in baseball">1963</a>, <a href="/wiki/1965_in_baseball" title="1965 in baseball">1965</a>, <a href="/wiki/1967_in_baseball" title="1967 in baseball">1967</a>–<a href="/wiki/1970_in_baseball" title="1970 in baseball">1970</a>) with the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a>. Ricketts was a reserve catcher on the <a href="/wiki/1967_World_Series" title="1967 World Series">1967 World Series</a> champion Cardinals and their <a href="/wiki/1968_St._Louis_Cardinals_season" title="1968 St. Louis Cardinals season">1968</a> pennant winners. He later served as a longtime bullpen coach of the Cardinals (1974–1975, 1978–1991), including their <a href="/wiki/1982_World_Series" title="1982 World Series">1982 World Series</a> champions and 1985 and 1987 pennant winners, after having been the bullpen coach for the Pirates from 1971 to 1973, including the <a href="/wiki/1971_World_Series" title="1971 World Series">1971 World Series</a> champions. Over his career, he <a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">batted</a> .249 with 1 <a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">home run</a> and 20 <a href="/wiki/Run_batted_in" title="Run batted in">runs batted in</a> in 130 games played. </p><p>Ricketts was born in <a href="/wiki/Pottstown,_Pennsylvania" title="Pottstown, Pennsylvania">Pottstown, Pennsylvania</a>; his older brother <a href="/wiki/Dick_Ricketts" title="Dick Ricketts">Dick</a> was the first pick in the <a href="/wiki/1955_NBA_draft" title="1955 NBA draft">1955 NBA draft</a>, and played three years in the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">National Basketball Association</a> before pitching briefly for the <a href="/wiki/1959_in_baseball" title="1959 in baseball">1959</a> Cardinals. Dave Ricketts played basketball with his brother at <a href="/wiki/Duquesne_University" title="Duquesne University">Duquesne University</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> graduating in 1957 with a degree in education. He married Barbarann Boswell on August 17, 1957,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and they had a daughter, Candace, and a son, David Jr., who died of spinal cancer at age 10 in 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served in the military from 1958 to 1959. During his minor league career, he led <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Coast_League" title="Pacific Coast League">Pacific Coast League</a> catchers with 12 <a href="/wiki/Double_play" title="Double play">double plays</a> in 1962 while with the <a href="/wiki/Portland_Beavers" title="Portland Beavers">Portland Beavers</a>, and led <a href="/wiki/International_League" title="International League">International League</a> catchers with 11 double plays the following year while with the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Crackers" title="Atlanta Crackers">Atlanta Crackers</a>; he also led the IL in <a href="/wiki/Passed_ball" title="Passed ball">passed balls</a> in both 1963 and 1964, playing for the <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville_Suns" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacksonville Suns">Jacksonville Suns</a> the latter season.<sup id="cite_ref-1981Register_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1981Register-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ricketts' tenure as a coach with the Cardinals was interrupted by two seasons as a <a href="/wiki/Manager_(baseball)" title="Manager (baseball)">manager</a> in the Cardinals farm system; he led the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Coast_Cardinals" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf Coast Cardinals">Sarasota Cardinals</a> to a fourth-place finish in the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_Coast_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf Coast League">Gulf Coast League</a> in 1976, and the <a href="/wiki/Johnson_City_Cardinals" title="Johnson City Cardinals">Johnson City Cardinals</a> to a third-place finish in the <a href="/wiki/Appalachian_League" title="Appalachian League">Appalachian League</a> in 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-1981Register_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1981Register-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ricketts died of <a href="/wiki/Renal_cancer" class="mw-redirect" title="Renal cancer">renal cancer</a> on July 13, 2008, one day after his 73rd birthday.<sup 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 15,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Dave+Ricketts+%E2%80%93+Society+for+American+Baseball+Research&rft.au=admin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsabr.org%2Fbioproj%2Fperson%2Fdave-ricketts%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADave+Ricketts" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-1981Register-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-1981Register_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-1981Register_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Sporting News Baseball Register</i> (1981), pp. 594-95.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDerrick_Goold2008" class="citation web cs1">Derrick Goold (July 13, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080720040424/http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/bird-land/bird-land/2008/07/cardinals-mourn-death-of-coach-a-passionate-teacher/">"Cardinals mourn death of coach, a "passionate teacher"<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Stltoday.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Stltoday.com">Stltoday.com</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/bird-land/bird-land/2008/07/cardinals-mourn-death-of-coach-a-passionate-teacher">the original</a> on July 20, 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 13,</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Cardinals+mourn+death+of+coach%2C+a+%22passionate+teacher%22&rft.pub=Stltoday.com&rft.date=2008-07-13&rft.au=Derrick+Goold&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stltoday.com%2Fblogzone%2Fbird-land%2Fbird-land%2F2008%2F07%2Fcardinals-mourn-death-of-coach-a-passionate-teacher&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADave+Ricketts" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dave_Ricketts&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Career statistics from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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