American baseball player (1920-2008)
Baseball player
Gerry Staley
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Gerry_Staley_1953.jpg/220px-Gerry_Staley_1953.jpg) Staley in about 1953.
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Pitcher
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Born:
(
1920-08-21
)
August 21, 1920
Brush Prairie, Washington
, U.S.
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Died:
January 2, 2008
(2008-01-02)
(aged 87)
Vancouver, Washington
, U.S.
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Batted:
Right
Threw:
Right
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April 20, 1947, for the St. Louis Cardinals
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September 25, 1961, for the Detroit Tigers
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Win?loss record
| 134?111
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Earned run average
| 3.70
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Strikeouts
| 727
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Saves
| 61
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Gerald Lee Staley
(August 21, 1920 ? January 2, 2008) was an American right-handed
pitcher
in
Major League Baseball
. He was drafted by the
St. Louis Cardinals
in the 1942
Minor League draft
. He pitched regularly from 1947 on, then was traded to Cincinnati for the 1955 season. In 1955 and 1956, he pitched for three teams, including the Yankees, before ending up with the
Chicago White Sox
, whom he helped to the
1959
American League
pennant as a reliever.
Staley was named to the
1952
and
1953
National League
All-Star teams and the
1960
American League All-Star team. He finished 28th in voting for the AL's 1959 Most Valuable Player Award after leading the league in games with 67 and games finished with 37, and had an 8?5 record, 14
saves
in
116
+
1
⁄
3
innings, 54 strikeouts, and a 2.24
earned run average
.
He finished 23rd in voting for the 1960 Most Valuable Player Award for having a 13?8 record in 64 games and
115
+
1
⁄
3
innings, with 10 saves, 14 blown saves, 52 strikeouts and a 2.42 earned run average. The 14 blown saves was a single-season record, matched by only four other pitchers.
He led the National League in hits allowed per 9 innings pitched (8.09) in 1949, and led the National League in hit batsmen in
1952
(7) and
1953
(17).
In 15 years, he had a 134?111 record in 640 games, 186 games started, 58 complete games, 9 shutouts, 246 games finished, 61 saves,
1,981
+
2
⁄
3
innings, 2,070 hits allowed, 946 runs allowed (814 earned), 187 home runs allowed, 529 walks (37 intentional), 727 strikeouts, 63 hit batsmen, 27 wild pitches, 8,398 batters faced, 2 balks and a 3.70 earned run average.
He died at his home in
Vancouver, Washington
, of natural causes at the age of 87.
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