Richard Klaus

Richard C. Klaus (September 12, 1922 in Jamaica, New York, USA - January 13, 1993) was a baseball scout and long-time minor league baseball manager and player. He spent his entire professional career with the New York Giants and San Francisco Giants organization.
A shortstop, Klaus played in 1942 and from 1946 to 1958, hitting .280 in 1,437 games over the course of a 14-year career. Though his statistics are incomplete, it is known that he hit at least 257 doubles, 24 triples and 58 home runs. In 1953, with the Pauls Valley Raiders, he hit a career-high 12 home runs, the only time he would eclipse ten in a season. He hit at least 21 doubles in each of his first seven seasons. He did not play from 1943 to 1945 due to World War II.
Klaus managed from 1951 to 1966, skippering the Sanford Giants (1951), Moultrie Giants (1952), Pauls Valley Raiders (1953), Danville Dans (1954), Muskogee Giants (1955-1956), Michigan City White Caps (1957), St. Cloud Rox (1958-1959), Eugene Emeralds (1960-1961) and Decatur Commodores (1962-1966). He led his teams to their respective league finals in 1954, 1955 and 1958, winning the league championship in 1954.
Following his managerial career, he became a scout for the Giants. In 1991, he was named the Midwest Scout of the Year.

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