Rich Dauer, who won titles with Orioles as player and Astros as coach, dies at 72
Orioles Rich Dauer lashes a first-pitch home run over left field fence in third inning of Game 7 of the World Series at Baltimore, Oct.
17, 1979, to score first run of the game.
Pirates Jim Bibby is pitching and Steve Nicosia is catching.
Ball is light blur at top right.
(AP Photo) Pirates Phil Garner slides head first into third base and is tagged by Orioles Rich Dauer (25) in second inning of third game of World Series, Oct.
12, 1979.
Garner had doubled and was out in run down play after he tried to reach third.
Dauer, second baseman, was covering third at time.
(AP Photo) Rich Dauer of University of Southern California is down, and out, as Harvard shortstop Ed Durso fires to first in first inning at Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, June 9, 1973 during NCAA College Baseball Championships.
Dauer was forced when teammate Ed Bowman grounded to Durso.
(AP Photo/Larry Stoddard) Former Baltimore Orioles catcher Rick Dempsey , left, helps former Orioles player Rich Dauer put on an Orioles Hall of Fame jacket during a ceremony before a baseball game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Orioles, Saturday, Aug.
25, 2012, in Baltimore.
(AP Photo/Gail Burton) Former Oriole Rich Dauer, back right, hugs Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch after throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Houston Astros and the Baltimore Orioles, Monday, April 2, 2018, in Houston.
(AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith) Orioles Rich Dauer lashes a first-pitch home run over left field fence in third inning of Game 7 of the World Series at Baltimore, Oct.
17, 1979, to score first run of the game.
Pirates Jim Bibby is pitching and Steve Nicosia is catching.
Ball is light blur at top right.
(AP Photo) Rich Dauer, an infielder who played a decade in the major leagues and won a World Series as a player with Baltimore and as a coach with Houston, has died.
He was 72.
The Orioles announced Dauers death Monday .
They did not announce a cause of death.
My long time teammate Richie Dauer passes.
Was part of the Oriole way, where you didnt have to be a star to help the Os win, Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer said on social media.
Richie had an infectious personality that kept us loose, yet focused.
Another reason I was so blessed to be an Oriole for life.
RIP.
Shortly after the Astros won the World Series in 2017, Dauer their first base coach had emergency surgery on a blood clot in his brain.
MLB.com reported in 2023 that he had recently had a significant stroke.
Dauer was born in San Bernardino and graduated from Colton High.
A park in Colton is named for him.
Dauer played college baseball at San Bernardino Valley College and USC, where he helped the Trojans win national titles in 1972 and 1973.
Baseball has brought incredible people into my life.
Loved him when he coached me and learned from him when he was on my staff in Houston, former Astros manager A.J.
Hinch said.
RIP, my friend.
And thank you for being you.
Dauer was selected in the first round of the 1974 draft and played for the Orioles from 1976-85.
He homered to open the scoring in Game 7 of the 1979 World Series against Pittsburgh, but the Pirates came back and won.
Baltimore returned to the World Series in 1983 and defeated Philadelphia.
When he retired, Dauer held two American League single-season fielding records for a second baseman with 86 consecutive errorless games and 425 straight errorless chances in 1978.
Dauer entered the Orioles Hall of Fame in 2012 and was also part of the 2021 class for the College Baseball Hall of Fame.
Rich Dauers career stats.
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