Baseball’s Paul Richards Dies at 77

Paul Richards, 77, longtime major league baseball player, manager and executive, died Sunday afternoon of an apparent heart attack while playing golf.

Richards collapsed about 4 p.m. CDT, while practicing on the 13th fairway of Waxahachie Country Club a short time after he had played 18 holes of golf, officials said. Efforts to revive him failed, officials added.

Richards was a native of Waxahachie, which is about 30 miles south of Dallas.

Richards had managed the Chicago White Sox and the Baltimore Orioles, but had been a special assistant for the Texas Rangers since 1981.

He played eight years in the major leagues in the 1930s and ‘40s with the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics. He was a catcher and had a career batting average of .227.