Education
Born in Newberg Township, Michigan, Wares attended Kalamazoo College.
Born in Newberg Township, Michigan, Wares attended Kalamazoo College.
He stood 5 ft 10 in (178 m) (178 cm), weighed 160 pounds (726 kg), and threw and batted right-handed. Wares played only one month and one full season of Major League ball. He came to the Saint Louis Browns of the American League late in the 1913 campaign, and stayed through 1914.
He appeared in 90 games, and batted.220 in 250 at bats, with 55 hits, no home runs and 24 runs batted in.
His manager, however, was Branch Rickey, and when Rickey was the general manager of the Saint Louis Cardinals of the National League, he hired Wares as a coach in 1930. Wares worked under eight different Cardinal managers in that span.
During his minor league playing career (1905-1920), Wares twice led his league in fielding percentage, although he did commit a league-leading 107 errors in 224 games played for Oakland of the Pacific Coast League in 1910. That season, however, Wares led the PCL with 790 assists, and had 1,287 total chances, for a fielding percentage of.917.
Buzzy Wares died at age 78 in South Bend, Indiana.