1975 at the age of 33. Career statistics In a fifteen-year major league career, Brinkman played in 1,845 games, accumulating 1,355 hits in 6,045 at bats for a .224 career batting average along with 60 home runs, 461 runs batted in and an on-base percentage of .280. Defensively, he recorded a .970 fielding percentage as a shortstop. Brinkman holds the American League record for the fewest hits in a season while playing a minimum of 150 games, with 82 hits in 1965. Coaching career After his playing career he was hired by the Tigers as a minor league roving fielding instructor in 1976. Brinkman then became a minor league manager in the Detroit organization, leading the 1977 Montgomery Rebels to a first-place finish in the Southern League. He spent on the Tigers' MLB coaching staff. Later, he was a coach and scout with the Chicago White Sox for 18 years (1983–2000), initially as the ChiSox' MLB infield coach (1983–1988) and then special assignment scout. He retired after the 2000 season. Ed Brinkman died on September 30, 2008 at the age of 66, due to complications from heart failure. His younger brother, Chuck Brinkman also played in Major League Baseball as a catcher. Notes William A. Cook, "Pete Rose: Baseball All-Time Hit King" David M. Jordan, "Pete Rose: A Biography" (Greenwood Press 2004) References External links 1941 births 2008 deaths American League All-Stars Baseball coaches from Ohio Baseball players from Cincinnati Birmingham Barons managers Burials at Spring Grove Cemetery Chicago White Sox coaches Chicago White Sox scouts Cincinnati Bearcats baseball players Deaths from lung cancer in Ohio Detroit Tigers coaches Detroit Tigers players Gold Glove Award winners Lakeland Flying Tigers managers Major League Baseball shortstops Major League Baseball third base coaches Middlesboro Senators players New York Yankees players Pensacola Senators players Raleigh Capitals players St. Louis Cardinals players San Diego Padres coaches Texas Rangers players Washington Senators (1961–1971) players