Kirk McCaskill
| Kirk McCaskill | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: April 9, 1961 Kapuskasing, Ontario |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 1, 1985, for the California Angels | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| July 20, 1996, for the Chicago White Sox | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 106–108 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.12 | ||
| Strikeouts | 1,003 | ||
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Kirk Edward McCaskill (born April 9, 1961, in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher and a retired professional hockey player.
McCaskill played for two different ballclubs during his career: the California Angels (1985–91), and Chicago White Sox (1992–96). He made his Major League Baseball debut on May 1, 1985, and played his final game on July 20, 1996. He also played professional hockey for the Sherbrooke Jets of the American Hockey League, a farm team for the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets, the team which drafted him in the 4th round, 64th overall in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft.
McCaskill was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where his father Ted McCaskill played for the local senior league hockey team. As a child, McCaskill moved several times due to his father's professional hockey career. He lived in Nashville, Memphis, Vancouver, Phoenix, Newport Beach and Huntington Beach. McCaskill's father retired from hockey in 1975 and his family settled in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
McCaskill attended Edison High School in Huntington Beach his Freshman year before being accepted at Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, New York. He move to the boarding school mainly to pursue his hockey career, but continued to play baseball while there. During his senior year, McCaskill had an 8–0 record with an 0.97 ERA and 97 strikeouts, scored 26 goals and 22 assists in 17 hockey games, and was the varsity soccer team's leading goal-scorer. He turned down a baseball scholarship to Arizona State University so that he could pursue both hockey and baseball at the University of Vermont.
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