Dick Calmus | |
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Pitcher | |
Born: Los Angeles, California | January 7, 1944|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
April 22, 1963, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 2, 1967, for the Chicago Cubs | |
MLB statistics | |
Record | 3-1 |
ERA | 3.17 |
Strikeouts | 26 |
Teams | |
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Richard Lee Calmus (born January 7,1944) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He attended Webster High School in Tulsa,Oklahoma,where he was the Tulsa World's Oklahoma basketball player of the year in 1962. [1] He played baseball on the same high school team as fellow future major leaguer Carl Morton and won two state titles. [2]
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