Bruce Edwin Hines is a Major League Baseball

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 coach

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 who is currently the minor league field coordinator for the Los Angeles Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers

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As a player, Hines was a switch hitter

Switch hitter

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 who primarily played second base

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. Hines attended Bonita High School

Bonita High School

Bonita High School is a high school located in the city of La Verne, California in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Opened in 1903, it was the first high school in the Bonita Unified School District. It moved to its current campus in 1959. The majority of its students come from Ramona...

 in La Verne, California and played college baseball for the University of La Verne

University of La Verne

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. He was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers

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 in the 15th round of the 1979 amateur draft, but returned to La Verne where he was named First Team All-SCIAC

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 in 1980. He was drafted by the San Diego Padres

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 in the 18th round of the 1980 amateur draft, but his playing career peaked at the high-A level.

He managed

Manager (baseball)

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 teams in the California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

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 and Oakland Athletics

Oakland Athletics

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 minor league systems, and worked as minor-league field coordinator

Minor-league field coordinator

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 for the Angels before being named the third base coach for the Seattle Mariners

Seattle Mariners

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On October 19, 2009, the Mariners announced Hines would be the only member of their coaching staff not retained for the following season.

Off the field, Hines had a brief appearance in the 1996 film The Fan

The Fan (1996 film)

The Fan is a 1996 American thriller film starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes. It was directed by Tony Scott and based on the novel of the same name by Peter Abrahams...

, in which he played an umpire

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who was presumably killed by the film's lead character.

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