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Bill Champion (baseball)

Billy Champion
Pitcher
Born: (1947-09-18)September 18, 1947
Shelby, North Carolina
Died: January 7, 2017(2017-01-07) (aged 69)
Shelby, North Carolina
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
June 4, 1969, for the Philadelphia Phillies
Last MLB appearance
June 5, 1976, for the Milwaukee Brewers
MLB statistics
Win–loss record 34–50
Earned run average 4.69
Innings 80413
Strikeouts 360
Teams

Buford Billy Champion (September 18, 1947 – January 7, 2017) was an American professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher who played in 202 games in the Major Leagues from 19691976.

He pitched for the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies. Before making the majors in 1969, he was a two-time earned run average minor league leader: he was Northern League ERA champ with Huron in 1965, and led the Carolina League in ERA in 1968. He was part of the trade that brought Don Money to Milwaukee, as the Phillies traded Champion, Money and John Vukovich to Milwaukee for pitchers Jim Lonborg, Ken Sanders, Ken Brett and Earl Stephenson on October 31, 1972. Champion went on to become a scout for the Chicago Cubs and pitching coach for the Greenville Braves.

Champion died on January 7, 2017.



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