Dick Bogard

John Richard Bogard, Jr. (February 10, 1937 - August 29, 2003) was a minor league baseball player, manager and a long time scout.

Bogard spent six years as a player, playing from 1957 to 1962. In 703 minor league games, he had a .287 batting average, with 677 hits in 2,362 at-bats.^[1]

He managed the Williamsport Astros to a playoff appearance in 1968, however the team lost in the first round. In 1969, he led the Covington Astros to a losing record, and in 1970 he led the Williamsport Astros to a losing record.

From 1963 to 1972, he scouted for the Houston Astros, except for the years in which he managed. He scouted for the Milwaukee Brewers until 1977 and was a national crosschecker for the Major League Scouting Bureau.

He next took a job as the Scouting Director for the Oakland Athletics from 1984 to 1994. From 1995 to 1996, Bogard was a Special Assistant to the GM for the Athletics.

In January, 2003, he was named special assistant for scouting operations and Mel Didier special assignment professional scout.^[2] He died in August of that year.