Joaquín Andújar was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros,St. Louis Cardinals,and Oakland Athletics from 1976 through 1988. Andújar was a four-time MLB All-Star and a Gold Glove Award winner.
Richard Allen Bosman is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Senators / Texas Rangers (1966–73),Cleveland Indians (1973–75),and Oakland Athletics (1975–76). Bosman started the final game for the expansion Senators and the first game for the Texas Rangers. He is the only pitcher in Major League history to miss a perfect game due to his own fielding error.
The following are the baseball events of the year 2002 throughout the world.
Nelson Kelley Briles was a Major League Baseball pitcher. A hard thrower whose best pitch was a slider,he exhibited excellent control. Briles batted and threw right-handed. He was a starting pitcher on World Series champions with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1967 and Pittsburgh Pirates in 1971.
Juan Pizarro a.k.a. "Terín" was a Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. He played for 18 seasons on 9 teams,from 1957 through 1974. In 1964,he won 19 games (19–9) and pitched 4 shutouts for the Chicago White Sox. He was selected for the Major League All-Star Baseball game in 1963 and 1964.
The following are the baseball events of the year 1990 throughout the world.
James Blair Bibby was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. During a 12-year baseball career,he pitched from 1972 to 1984 with the St. Louis Cardinals,Texas Rangers,Cleveland Indians,and Pittsburgh Pirates,with whom he was a member of its 1979 World Series champions. In 1973,Bibby pitched a no-hitter against the Oakland Athletics. Also,in 1981,as a member of the Pirates,he missed out on a perfect game by just one hit,allowing a lead off single,before retiring the next 27 batters he faced.
Jonathan Trumpbour Matlack is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher from 1971 through 1983 for the New York Mets and the Texas Rangers.
Darold Duane Knowles is an American former professional baseball pitcher and coach,who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1965 through 1980,most notably as a member of the Oakland Athletics dynasty that won three consecutive World Series championships between 1972 and 1974. In the 1973 World Series,Knowles became the first pitcher to appear in all seven games of a World Series. He also played for the Baltimore Orioles,Philadelphia Phillies,Washington Senators / Texas Rangers,Chicago Cubs,Montreal Expos,and St. Louis Cardinals. Knowles batted and threw left-handed. In 2014,he was hired as the pitching coach of the Florida State League's Dunedin Blue Jays.
The 1996 Major League Baseball season was the final season of league-only play before the beginning of interleague play the following season. The season ended with the New York Yankees defeating the defending champion Atlanta Braves in six games for the World Series title,the Yankees' first championship since 1978. The record for most home runs hit in an MLB regular season,set at 4,458 in 1987,was broken,as the AL and NL combined to hit 4,962 home runs. Only 196 shutouts were recorded in the 2,266 MLB regular-season games. This was the first season in the Divisional Series era to be played to the full 162 games,as the 1994–95 player's strike caused the first two seasons of the era to be abbreviated.
The 1988 Major League Baseball season ended with the underdog Los Angeles Dodgers shocking the Oakland Athletics,who had won 104 games during the regular season,in the World Series. The most memorable moment of the series came in Game 1,when injured Dodger Kirk Gibson hit a dramatic pinch-hit walk-off home run off Athletics closer Dennis Eckersley to win the game for Los Angeles. The Dodgers went on to win the Series in five games.
The 1992 Major League Baseball season saw the Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Atlanta Braves in the World Series,becoming the first team outside the United States to win the World Series.
The 1990 Major League Baseball season saw the Cincinnati Reds upset the heavily favored Oakland Athletics in the World Series,for their first title since 1976.
The 1989 Major League Baseball season saw the Oakland Athletics win their first World Series title since 1974.
The 1980 Major League Baseball season concluded with the Philadelphia Phillies winning their first World Series championship.
The 1979 Major League Baseball season. None of the post-season teams of 1977 or 1978 returned to this year's postseason. In a re-match of the 1971 World Series,the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Baltimore Orioles in seven games in the 1979 World Series.
The 1977 Major League Baseball season. The American League (AL) had its third expansion as the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays began play. However,the National League (NL) did not expand,remaining at 12 teams compared to the AL's 14,until the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins joined the NL in 1993.
The 1972 Major League Baseball season was the first to have games cancelled by a player strike. It was also the last season in which American League pitchers would hit for themselves on a regular basis;the designated hitter rule would go into effect the following season.
The 1971 Major League Baseball season was the final season for the Senators in Washington,D.C.,before the team's relocation to the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb Arlington for the following season,as the Texas Rangers,leaving the nation's capital without a baseball team of its own until 2005.
Ronald Richard Schueler is an American former professional baseball pitcher,pitching coach,executive and scout. Over the course of his eight-year playing career in Major League Baseball (MLB),Schueler played for the Atlanta Braves,Philadelphia Phillies,Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox.
