Aubrey Epps

Who was Aubrey Epps?

Aubrey Lee Epps was a Major League Baseball catcher. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He batted and threw right-handed, was 5 foot 10, and 170 pounds. Yo-Yo played just one major league game in his career, but he played well, going 3 for 4 with 3 RBIs in his only major league game, playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 29, 1935. Epps died in Ackerman, Mississippi.

Epps started his professional career in the minor leagues in 1933, splitting a partial season with six games at Longview of the Class C Dixie League and 30 games with the Birmingham Barons of the Class A Southern Association. In 1934, his first full season, he played 152 games for the Barons, finishing the season with three home runs and a .301 batting average. The Pittsburgh Pirates acquired Epps from the Barons in September 1934, under a deal in which Epps would finish the season with the Barons, would not play outfield and would be used exclusively as a catcher and would report to the Pirate's spring training camp in California in advance of the 1935 season. Epps split his 1935 minor league season, playing 59 games with the Barons and 26 with Fort Worth of the Class A Texas League, finishing with an overall .288 batting average in the minors that season.