Sports · Bob BooneBob Boone dies at 78: Phillies champion leaves a three-generation baseball legacyAired November 10, 2026 at 6:42 PM UTCWatchTranscript0:00Bob Boone dies at seventy-eight.0:02Philly's champion leaves a three.0:04Generation baseball legacy.0:06Bob Boone, who caught for Philadelphia's first World Series champions, has died at0:11seventy-eight.0:11His death reaches the teammates who won beside him, and a family spanning three0:15generations of Major League Baseball.0:17What made Boone the player those championship teammates called their backbone?0:20His son Brett announced his death on Facebook Tuesday morning, November10.0:24Boone died Monday, November9.0:27No cause of death has been announced.0:29Brett remembered his father as a man of great integrity and wrote, Baseball lost a0:33great one.0:34For Philadelphia, Boone's place in baseball history runs through the championship0:37the franchise had never won before.0:39He spent ten seasons with the Phillies, from1,970 20:44through1,980 ,1.0:46He was behind the plate during their breakthrough season.0:49Philadelphia won the1980 World Series Four games to two.0:53That championship became a shared landmark for Boone and his teammates.0:56Their remembrances describe friendships that continued for decades after the games1:00ended.1:00And a catcher they trusted at the center of their team.1:03Boone earned recognition across a much longer stretch than that championship season.1:07He made four All-Star teams during a nineteen-year Major League playing career.1:11His strongest collection of individual honors came for his defense, the work that1:15defined his reputation behind the plate.1:17Boone won seven gold glove awards.1:19Those honors recognized defensive excellence alongside his four all-star selections.1:24They give a measurable foundation to the praise from teammates who depended on him1:27through their years together.1:29His Major League career began on September10 ,1972 .1:34His final appearance came on September27 ,1990 .1:38Across those years, he built the playing record that Philadelphia would later1:42recognize with a permanent place among its franchise greats.1:44The Phillies inducted Boone into their wall of fame in2005 .1:48The honor connected his ten seasons in Philadelphia with the club's lasting history.1:52In remembering him, the team praised his qualities as a player, teammate, and family1:56man.1:57Boone's regular season batting totals also capture the length of that career.2:00He finished with a two hundred fifty four average and seven, two hundred forty five2:05at bats.2:06His record included one hundred and five home runs and eight hundred twenty six runs2:09batted in.2:10Production accumulated over nineteen years in the majors.2:12He also stole thirty-eight bases.2:14His career OPS was six hundred and sixty one.2:18That's on base percentage plus slugging percentage, combining how often a hitter2:22reaches base with his power.2:23But his former teammates spoke most directly about the person they worked beside.2:27Larry Bawa called Boone the backbone of our team.2:30He said, We lost a very special member of the Phillies family today.2:33Bava remembered the privilege of playing alongside him for nearly his entire career.2:38Mike Schmidt's remembrance reached well beyond their time on the field.2:41He described Boone as his teammate for over a decade and his friend for fifty years.2:45The friendship included their Christian faith, their workouts and the championship2:49they pursued together.2:50It was a sorrowful day yesterday as we learned of the passing of Bob Boone.2:54Schmidt said.2:55His tribute joined the loss of a longtime friend to the achievement that had bound2:58their careers together as world champions.3:00Greg Lezinski traced his family's friendship with the Boons back to one thousand3:04nine hundred sixty-nine in Durham, North Carolina.3:06That connection predated Boone's Major League debut.3:09Luzinski's remembrance described a relationship that had become as close as family.3:13The Boons have been our friends since one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine in3:17Durham, N.C.3:18Luzinski said, Bob was a great man, and we were like brothers.3:22Rest in peace, my brother.3:24Boone was born November19 ,1947 , in San Diego,3:29California.3:30Baseball connected his own childhood to the careers his sons would build.3:33His father, Ray played in the majors, and two of Bob's three sons followed him3:37there.3:37Ray Boone's Major League career came before Bob's.3:40Then Brett and Aaron extended the family's presence into a third generation.3:43Brett became a three-time all-star.3:46Aaron also played in the majors and now manages the New York Yankees.3:49Boone's influence carried through both those family relationships and his own work3:52after playing.3:53His teammates remembered the defensive anchor of their championship club.3:56His sons followed the same profession.3:58He went on to manage the Kansas City Royals and Cincinnati Reds.4:01Boone managed eight hundred and fifteen major league games with Kansas City and4:05Cincinnati.4:06His combined record was three hundred and seventy, one wins and four hundred and4:09forty, four losses.4:11Managing added another chapter to a baseball life that would also include work in a4:15team's front office.4:16By February2008 , Boone was serving as the Washington Nationals assistant general4:20manager.4:20The Yankees remembered that breadth of work when they mourned his death, describing4:24a lifetime giving back to baseball as an exceptional player, respected manager, and4:28distinguished executive.Story timelineHeyDex
