American baseball player
Baseball player
Warren Hacker
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Warren_Hacker_1953.jpg/220px-Warren_Hacker_1953.jpg) Hacker in about 1953.
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Pitcher
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Born:
(
1924-11-21
)
November 21, 1924
Marissa, Illinois
, U.S.
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Died:
May 22, 2002
(2002-05-22)
(aged 77)
Lenzburg, Illinois
, U.S.
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Batted:
Right
Threw:
Right
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September 24, 1948, for the Chicago Cubs
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September 29, 1961, for the Chicago White Sox
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Win?loss record
| 62?89
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Earned run average
| 4.21
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Strikeouts
| 557
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Warren Louis Hacker
(November 21, 1924 ? May 22, 2002) was an American
professional baseball
player, a
pitcher
for the
Chicago Cubs
(1948?56),
Cincinnati Redlegs
(1957),
Philadelphia Phillies
(1957?58) and
Chicago White Sox
(1961).
[1]
He was also the uncle of former Major League
shortstop
Rich Hacker
.
Hacker's finished 23rd in voting for the
National League
Most Valuable Player
Award in 1952 for leading the league in WHIP (.946) and hits allowed/9ip (7.01) and having a 15?9 win?loss record, 33 games pitched (20 started), 12 complete games, 5 shutouts, 5 games finished, 1 save, 185 innings pitched, 144 hits allowed, 56 runs allowed, 53 earned runs allowed, 17 home runs allowed, 31 walks allowed, 84 strikeouts, 1 hit batsmen, 1 wild pitch, 721 batters faced, 1 balk and a 2.58 ERA.
In 12 seasons Hacker had a 62?89 win loss record,
[2]
306 games pitched (157 started), 47 complete games, 6 shutouts, 76 games finished, 17 saves, 1,283
1
⁄
3
innings pitched, 1,297 hits allowed, 680 runs allowed, 601 earned runs allowed, 181 home runs allowed, 320 walks allowed, 557 strikeouts,
[2]
21 hit batsmen, 10 wild pitches, 5,438 batters faced, 1 balk, a 4.21 ERA
[2]
and a 1.26 WHIP.
After leaving the major leagues in 1961, Hacker played for the
Indianapolis Indians
from 1962 to 1965, which he recalled as "maybe the best days I ever had in baseball."
[2]
He then served as a minor-league pitching coach for the
Oakland As
from 1967 to 1971, and for much of the 1970s he was a pitching coach in the
San Diego Padres
' organization.
[2]
The native of
Marissa, Illinois
, died in 2002 in
Lenzburg, Illinois
, at the age of 77.
[1]
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