Arthur John Ditmar (born April 3, 1929 in Winthrop, Massachusetts) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Athletics (Philadelphia, 1954 - Kansas City, 1955-56, 1961-62) and the New York Yankees (1957-1961). He batted and threw right-handed. April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Winthrop is a town located in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. ... In baseball or softball, a starting pitcher, often abbreviated as starter, is the pitcher who pitches the first pitch to the first batter of a game. ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in North America. ... The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. ... New York Yankees American League AAA Columbus Clippers AA Trenton Thunder A Charleston RiverDogs Tampa Yankees Staten Island Yankees R Gulf Coast Yankees The New York Yankees are a Major League baseball team based in The Bronx, New York City. ...

A finesse control pitcher, Ditmar divided his career between the Athletics and Yankees. He didn't considered himself a power pitcher, yet the variable-speed fastball was his most common oferring. He also had a slider and a good curveball. For the American band of the same name, see Fastball (band). ... A slider is a pitch in baseball, sort of halfway between a curveball and a fastball, with less break but more speed than the curve. ... The curveball is a type of pitch in baseball thrown with a grip and hand motion that induces extra rotation on the ball causing it to break, to fly in a more exaggerated curve than would be expected. ...

Ditmar won 47 games for the Yankees in a span of five years, with a career-high 15 in 1960, despite he didn't get to pitch on a regular basis in a rotation that included Whitey Ford, Bobby Shantz, Don Larsen and Bob Turley. Edward Charles Whitey Ford (born October 21, 1928) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. ... Robert Clayton Shantz (born September 26, 1925 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania) was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics (1949-1954), Kansas City Athletics (1955-1956), New York Yankees (1957-1960), Pittsburgh Pirates (1961), Houston Colt . ... Don James Larsen (born August 7, 1929 in Michigan City, Indiana) was a pitcher for seven different Major League Baseball franchises, but is most remembered for his time with the New York Yankees. ... Robert Lee Turley (born September 19, 1930) (known as Bullet Bob) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. ...

In a nine-season career, Ditmar compiled a 72-77 record with 552 strikeouts and a 3.98 ERA in 1268.0 innings. In baseball, a strikeout or strike out (denoted by K or SO) occurs when the batter receives three strikes during his time at bat. ... In baseball statistics, earned run average (denoted by ERA) is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. ... In baseball, innings pitched (IP) are the number of innings a pitcher has completed, measured by the number of batters and baserunners that are put out while the pitcher is in the game. ...

Facts

• Ditmar defeated the Yankees 8-6, when the Athletics played their last game at Shibe Park in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City. In the same game, Yankees regular catcher Yogi Berra played his only game at third base in his career, and his teammate Mickey Mantle appeared at shortstop (September 26, 1954).

• After a Budweiser TV commercial of the 1980s incorporated the original radio broadcast of the 1960 World Series Game 7, with announcer Chuck Thompson incorrectly naming Ditmar instead of Ralph Terry as the pitcher off whom Bill Mazeroski hit his legendary home run, Ditmar sued Anheuser-Busch for $500,000, invoking his reputation was tarnished. Resource: Clubhouse Lawyer, book written by Art Ditmar [1] (http://www.clubhouselawyer.com/).

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External link

• Baseball-Reference.com  (http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/ditmaar01.shtml) - career statistics and analysis