George Lombard

George Alexander Lombard Sr. (born September 14, 1975) is an American professional baseball coach and former outfielder who is the bench coach for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Lombard, a Parade All America and USA Today All America high school running back, had initially committed to play football for the Georgia Bulldogs before changing his plans in favor of playing baseball. Lombard earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Phoenix in 2015.

Baseball career Playing career Lombard played baseball and football at The Lovett School in Atlanta. He initially committed to play college football for the Georgia Bulldogs. Lombard was drafted in the second round by the Atlanta Braves in the 1994 Major League Baseball draft. He signed for $425,000. He played for the Braves, Detroit Tigers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and Washington Nationals. In 2002, in 241 at bats he batted .241/.300/.373 for Detroit with 5 home runs and 13 stolen bases. In his major league career, in 350 at bats he batted .220 with 8 home runs and stole 23 bases in 25 attempts.

He was hired by the Braves in September 2015 to fill the same role and to serve as overall minor league field coordinator in the Atlanta player development system.

On December 17, 2015, it was announced that Lombard would be joining the Los Angeles Dodgers as first base coach, a position he held through the 2020 season. The Dodgers played in three World Series during that time, winning one of them.

On November 7, 2020, Lombard was named the bench coach for the Detroit Tigers.

Personal life George is of biracial heritage and was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. His white mother, Posy Lombard of Weston, Massachusetts, was a notable civil rights activist and associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She is commemorated on the "In Memory" page of the Civil Rights Movement Archive. His maternal grandfather, George Francis Fabyan Lombard, taught at the Harvard Business School for 41 years and was the school's former senior dean and professor of human relations. In August of 1985, his grandfather George was the driver of a fatal car accident that resulted in the death of his mother Posy Lombard.

Lombard has two sons, George Jr. and Jacob, both of whom are shortstops. George Jr. was drafted in the first round of the 2023 MLB draft by the New York Yankees; he joined the major league club in August 2026. Jacob was drafted in the first round of the 2026 MLB draft by the Miami Marlins.