Tom Sturdivant
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Born: April 28, 1930 Gordon, Kansas |
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Died: February 28, 2009 (aged 78) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 14, 1955, for the New York Yankees | |||
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| June 21, 1964, for the New York Mets | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 59–51 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.74 | ||
| Strikeouts | 704 | ||
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Thomas Virgil Sturdivant II (April 28, 1930 – February 28, 2009) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, and New York Mets. He was nicknamed "Snake" for his excellent curveball.
Born in Gordon, Kansas, he was signed by the Yankees as an amateur free agent out of Capitol Hill High School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in May, 1948. He started his professional career in the minor leagues. In 1952, he was 3-3 with a 3.56 ERA for Beaumont in the Texas League. In ‘53, he was 10-7 with a 3.76 ERA for Birmingham of the Eastern League. In ‘54, he was 8-9 with a 3.57 ERA, 133 strikeouts and just 59 walks in 169 innings for Kansas City of the American Association.
Sturdivant made his major league debut the following year, working exclusively out of the bullpen during the regular season and the third and fourth games of the 1955 World Series. He was a sixteen-game winner in each of the next two campaigns, starting a World Series game in each year, and pitching a complete game to defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers 6-2 in Game 4 of the 1956 World Series (the game before Don Larsen's perfect game). In 1957, his 16-6 record led the American League in won-lost percentage (.727), and his 2.54 ERA was second in the league.
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