American baseball player (1927?2021)
Baseball player
Cloyd Boyer
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Boyer in about 1952
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Pitcher
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Born:
(
1927-09-01
)
September 1, 1927
Alba, Missouri
, U.S.
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Died:
September 20, 2021
(2021-09-20)
(aged 94)
Carthage, Missouri
, U.S.
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Batted:
Right
Threw:
Right
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April 23, 1949, for the St. Louis Cardinals
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September 24, 1955, for the Kansas City Athletics
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Win?loss record
| 20?23
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Earned run average
| 4.73
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Strikeouts
| 198
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Cloyd Victor Boyer Jr.
(September 1, 1927 ? September 20, 2021) was an American right-handed
pitcher
and
pitching coach
in
Major League Baseball
who played between 1949 and 1955 for the
St. Louis Cardinals
(1949?52) and
Kansas City Athletics
(1955). Boyer was born in
Alba, Missouri
, the eldest son in a family that included
Gold Glove Award
-winning
third basemen
Ken
and
Clete Boyer
.
[1]
Ken, 1964
National League Most Valuable Player
, an 11-time
Major League Baseball All-Star
and five-time Gold Glove recipient, had a 15-year big-league career with the Cardinals,
New York Mets
,
Chicago White Sox
and
Los Angeles Dodgers
; Clete won only one Gold Glove because of the presence of
Brooks Robinson
,
[2]
but played all or parts of 16 MLB seasons for the Athletics,
New York Yankees
and
Atlanta Braves
.
[3]
Biography
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In his major-league career, encompassing all or part of five seasons, Boyer posted a 20?23
won?lost record
with 198
strikeouts
and a 4.73
earned run average
in 395
2
⁄
3
innings pitched
, including 13
complete games
, three
shutouts
, and two
saves
. Boyer also played for the
Duluth Dukes
, a Cardinals minor league team, in 1947. That year, Boyer compiled a record of 16 wins against 9 losses. He struck out 239 and took the strikeout lead in the
Northern League
. After that season, he was promoted to the Cardinals'
Double-A
club, the
Houston Buffaloes
, for whom he played in 1948.
After his playing career finished, Boyer became a
scout
,
minor league
pitching instructor and major league pitching coach?spending much of his time in the New York Yankees' organization. He spent two brief terms as pitching coach of the Bombers in
1975
and
1977
, and held the same post on the staff of
Bobby Cox
during Cox's first term (
1978
?
1981
) as manager of the
Atlanta Braves
, then served under
Dick Howser
as mound tutor of the
1982
?
1983
Kansas City Royals
.
Boyer died in Carthage, Missouri, on September 20, 2021.
[4]
At the time, he was the 18th oldest former Major League Baseball player at 94 years, 19 days old.
[5]
[6]
References
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McEvoy, Colin (February 9, 2023).
"The Ultimate Sibling Rivalry: 8 Sets of Brothers Who Faced Off in Sports Championships"
.
Biography
. Retrieved
February 12,
2023
.
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Wancho, Joseph.
"Clete Boyer"
.
Society for American Baseball Research
. Retrieved
September 25,
2021
.
- ^
"Cloyd Boyer Stats"
.
baseball-reference.com
. sports-reference.com
. Retrieved
September 25,
2021
.
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Goldstein, Richard (September 25, 2021).
"Cloyd Boyer, Last of a Three-Brother Baseball Rarity, Dies at 94"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
September 26,
2021
.
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Gallagher, Mark (2003).
The Yankee Encyclopedia
(6th ed.). Sports Publishing LLC. pp. 175?176.
- ^
"Cloyd Victor Boyer death notice"
. September 21, 2021
. Retrieved
September 25,
2021
.
External links
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