Jack Kralick
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Born: June 1, 1935 Youngstown, Ohio |
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Died: September 18, 2012 (aged 77) San Blas, Mexico |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 15, 1959, for the Washington Senators | |||
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| April 23, 1967, for the Cleveland Indians | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 67–65 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.56 | ||
| Strikeouts | 668 | ||
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John Francis Kralick (June 1, 1935 – September 18, 2012) was a professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1959 to 1967. He participated in 235 games in the course of an eight-year career that included stints with the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Indians. During that time, he earned 67 wins and 65 losses, accumulating a record of 668 strikeouts, with an ERA of 3.56 in 125 games and 1,218 innings pitched.
Kralick was born in Youngstown, Ohio, an industrial town with a strong amateur baseball tradition, and attended Michigan State University. Early in his professional career, he gained recognition as a pitcher for a farm team connected to the Northern League. On August 8, 1956, Kralick pitched a 5–0 seven-inning no-hitter for the Duluth–Superior White Sox in a match against the Fargo–Moorhead Twins.
But the parent Chicago White Sox released Kralick during the middle of the 1958 minor-league season, and he was signed as a free agent by the Washington Senators' organization.
Kralick made his Major League debut with the Senators on April 15, 1959. But he appeared in only five MLB games before being sent to the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts for the bulk of the 1959 season. There he compiled a 3.53 earned-run average in 26 starts and 176 innings pitched. He got into one further Major League contest when the rosters expanded in September 1959 and pitched two hitless innings in relief against the Boston Red Sox on September 27.
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