Daily News | Walter ‘Buddy’ Harris Jr., entrepreneur, and baseball and basketball hall of famer, has died at 73
Walter “Buddy” Harris Jr., 73, of Roxborough, a gregarious and popular business owner, hall-of-fame baseball and basketball star, and former Major League pitcher for the Houston Astros, died Saturday, Nov. 5, of sepsis at Penn Medicine Rittenhouse.
He was a minor-league baseball all-star in 1969 and 1970, and had his own Major League baseball cards in 1971 and 1972. The son of Walter “Bucky” Harris, the hall-of-fame men’s basketball coach at Textile, his willingness to share stories and spend time with neighborhood fans after his retirement from baseball was, according to“Bud touched so many lives, and I was fortunate to be one of them,” a friend said in aA 6-foot-7, 245-pound power pitcher, Mr.
In September 2020, the Jefferson athletic department recognized Mr. Harris’ achievement as the university’s first Major League player by publishing athat ended: “Fifty years ago, the Houston Astros and San Francisco Giants prepared to play a meaningless game. Fifty years later, it is a landmark moment in Rams history.”
The Men of Cliveden, a Philadelphia cultural organization, named him the city’s outstanding athlete as a high school senior, and his biography for the Jefferson hall of fame said he “accomplished many things in two sports which many athletes find difficult to do in one.”
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