George Lombard

Playing career Lombard played baseball and football at The Lovett School in Atlanta. He initially committed to play college football for the Georgia Bulldogs. Lombard was drafted in the second round by the Atlanta Braves in the 1994 Major League Baseball draft. He signed for $425,000. He played for the Braves, Detroit Tigers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and Washington Nationals. In 2002, in 241 at bats he batted .241/.300/.373 for Detroit with 5 home runs and 13 stolen bases. In his major league career, in 350 at bats he batted .220 with 8 home runs and stole 23 bases in 25 attempts. He was hired by the Braves in September 2015 to fill the same role and to serve as overall minor league field coordinator in the Atlanta player development system. On December 17, 2015, it was announced that Lombard would be joining the Los Angeles Dodgers as first base coach, a position he held through the 2020 season. The Dodgers played in three World Series during that time, winning one of them. On November 7, 2020, Lombard was named the bench coach for the Detroit Tigers. ==Personal life==

George's late mother, Posy Lombard, of Weston, Massachusetts, who died in a car accident with his grandfather at the wheel when he was 10 years old, was a noted white civil rights activist and associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Civil Rights Movement Archive lists Posy Lombard on its In Memory page. His maternal grandfather taught at the Harvard Business School for 41 years and was the school's former senior dean and professor of human relations. Lombard has two sons, George Jr. and Jacob, who are both athletes. George Jr. was drafted in the first round of the 2023 MLB draft by the New York Yankees with whom he signed. ==References==