Wally Bunker
| Wally Bunker | |||
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Born: January 25, 1945 Seattle, Washington |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 29, 1963, for the Baltimore Orioles | |||
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| May 26, 1971, for the Kansas City Royals | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 60–52 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.51 | ||
| Strikeouts | 569 | ||
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Wallace Edward Bunker (born January 25, 1945) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. A right-hander, Bunker pitched for the Baltimore Orioles from 1963 to 1968 and Kansas City Royals from 1969 to 1971.
Bunker pitched for the Capuchino High School varsity baseball team in San Bruno, California in 1962 and 1963, as the team won the Mid-Peninsula League championships. He also played on the varsity basketball team. The Baltimore Orioles had ranked him and Dave Boswell as the two best pitching prospects in the country. Not able to afford giving each of them huge bonuses, the ballclub only signed Bunker after being disappointed by Boswell's performance in his senior year of high school.
As a 19-year-old in 1964, Bunker won his first six starts of the season, the first of which was a 2-1 one-hitter over the Washington Senators. He became the ace of a staff that also featured Milt Pappas and Robin Roberts. Bunker finished the season 19-5 (to date, the 19 wins are an Oriole rookie single-season record) with a 2.69 earned-run average and won The Sporting News American League Rookie pitcher of the Year Award. He also received the only first-place vote not won by Tony Oliva for the Rookie of the Year honors. That year, the Orioles fell short of the American League pennant, finishing in third place; the New York Yankees won their fifth consecutive pennant, finishing one game ahead of the Chicago White Sox and two games ahead of the Orioles.
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