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Clyde Wright (born February 20, 1941 in Jefferson City, Tennessee) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ...
Jefferson City is a city located in Jefferson County, Tennessee. ...
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ...
A baseball pitcher delivers the ball to home plate In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws the baseball from the pitchers mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter who attempts to either make contact with it or draw a...
A left-hander, Wright pitched for the California Angels (1966-73), Milwaukee Brewers (1974) and Texas Rangers (1975). Wright’s son Jaret is currently a starting pitcher with the New York Yankees. For the Pacific Coast League franchise see: Los Angeles Angels (PCL). ...
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Jaret Samuel Wright (born December 29, 1975 in Anaheim, California) is a professional baseball pitcher who currently plays for the New York Yankees and is the son of a former professional baseball pitcher, Clyde Wright, a left-hander who pitched in the majors from 1966 to 1975, for the California...
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A star pitcher at Carson-Newman College, Wright defeated the Minnesota Twins on a four-hitter in his Major League debut (June 15, 1966). He was a spot starter for the Angels in his first two seasons, and in 1968 won 10 games while losing six, pitching mostly in relief. Carson-Newman College is a historically Baptist liberal arts college located in Jefferson City, Tennessee, northeast of Knoxville. ...
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June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ...
This article is currently under construction // This year in baseball Events January 20 - The Baseball Writers Association of America voters elect Ted Williams to the Hall of Fame. ...
The following are the baseball events of the year 1968 throughout the world. ...
A relief pitcher warms up in the bullpen as the game goes on A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness and/or fatigue. ...
In 1969 Wright won only one game with eight losses and a 4.10 earned run average; after the season, the Angels waived him. Teammate Jim Fregosi convinced Wright to accompany him to winter ball, where the pitcher experimented with a screwball and changeup. The following are the baseball events of the year 1969 throughout the world. ...
In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. ...
James Louis Fregosi (born April 4, 1942 in San Francisco, California) is a former player and manager in Major League Baseball. ...
A screwball is a baseball pitch that is thrown so as to break in the opposite direction of a curveball. ...
This article is about a type of pitch in the sport of baseball. ...
Wright returned to the Angels in 1970 and had the best season of his career, winning 22 games to become only the second 20-game winner in franchise history (Dean Chance had won 20 games in 1964) and establishing a career-low 2.83 ERA, which earned him the American League Comeback Player of the Year Award. Wright also no-hit the Oakland Athletics 4-0 on July 3 of that year, the first no-hitter ever pitched at Anaheim Stadium (now Angel Stadium of Anaheim). He almost lost the no-hitter in the 7th inning on Reggie Jackson’s 400-foot shot to straight-away center field, which was caught just in front of the wall. (Wright recorded only one strikeout in pitching the no-hitter; that was to Jackson in the fourth inning.) Prior to the game, Wright had been inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame. The following are the baseball events of the year 1970 throughout the world. ...
Wilmer Dean Chance (born June 1, 1941 in Wooster, Ohio) is a retired American Major League Baseball pitcher. ...
The following are the baseball events of the year 1964 throughout the world. ...
American League The American League (or formally the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States of America and Canada. ...
The MLB Comeback Player of the Year Award is the newest annual award officially sponsored by Major League Baseball. ...
In baseball and softball, a no-hit game (more commonly known as a no-hitter) refers to a contest in which one of the teams has prevented the other from getting an official hit during the entire length of the game, which must be at least 9 innings by the...
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July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining. ...
Angel Stadium of Anaheim (originally Anaheim Stadium and later Edison International Field of Anaheim) is a baseball stadium located in Anaheim, California, and home to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of the American League. ...
Reginald Martinez Reggie Jackson (born May 18, 1946), nicknamed Mr. ...
In baseball, a strikeout or strike out (denoted by K, K-S, or SO) occurs when the batter receives three strikes during his time at bat. ...
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (better known as the NAIA) traces its roots to the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball. ...
Wright also was selected to the All-Star team in 1970, the only All-Star selection of his career. He was the losing pitcher of the game (which was played at the newly opened Riverfront Stadium eleven days after his no-hitter), giving up the single to fellow Tennessee native Jim Hickman in the 12th inning, which drove in Pete Rose for the winning run, Rose barreling over Cleveland Indian catcher Ray Fosse to score the run. The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the Midsummer Classic or Midsummer Night Classic, is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by fan vote for the starting position players and by the manager for pitchers and...
Cingery Field formerly known as Riverfront Stadium (1970 - 2002) was the home of the Cincinnati Reds Major League Baseball team and the Cincinnati Bengals National Football League team. ...
Jim Hickman (born James Lucius Hickman in on May 10, 1937 in Henning, Tennessee) is a former Major League Baseball player. ...
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Raymond Earl Fosse (born April 4, 1947) is an American former Major League Baseball catcher who played primarily for the Cleveland Indians and Oakland Athletics. ...
Wright went 16-17 in 1971 (but with a respectable 2.99 ERA and a career-high 135 strikeouts), and 18-11 in 1972 with a 2.98 ERA. After slumping to 11-19 in 1973, he was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers in a nine-player deal. In 1974 he had the dubious distinction of becoming the first 20-game loser in the franchise’s history (9-20), after which he was traded again, this time to the Texas Rangers. He pitched one season in Texas before being released just prior to the start of the 1976 season. This article is currently under construction // This year in baseball Events January 31 - The new Special Veterans Committee selects seven men for enshrinement to the Hall of Fame: former players Dave Bancroft, Jake Beckley, Chick Hafey, Harry Hooper, Joe Kelley, Rube Marquard, and executive George Weiss. ...
The following are the events of the year 1972 that happened world-wide throughout the sport of baseball. ...
This article is currently under construction // This year in baseball Events January-March January 3 - A group of investors, headed by shipbuilder George Steinbrenner, purchases the New York Yankees from CBS for $10 million. ...
This article is currently under construction // This year in baseball Events January 16 - The Baseball Writers Association of America elects former New York Yankees teammates Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford to the Hall of Fame. ...
This article is currently under construction // This year in baseball Events January 14 - Ted Turner completes the purchase of 100 percent of the Atlanta Braves. ...
In his career, Wright won 100 games against 111 losses, with a 3.50 ERA and 667 strikeouts in 1728 2/3 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. ...
Yomiuri Giants Not long after his release from the Rangers, Wright went to Japan and signed with the Yomiuri Giants. He pitched for them for three seasons, but his stay in Japan almost ended before the first was over. Early in that first season, manager Shigeo Nagashima pulled Wright from a game tied at 1-1 in the sixth inning, after Wright allowed the first two batters to reach base. Wright refused to hand over the ball, then charged off the mound and fired the ball into the dugout. He then went into the clubhouse, where he tore off his uniform and threw it into a bathtub. These antics gave him the nickname "Crazy Righto," which stuck with him throughout his stay in Japan. (As an Angel, he had also been dubbed "Skeeter" by Angel trainer Freddie Frederico "because you can't call a major leaguer 'Clyde.'")[1] Fans and sportswriters called for Wright's release, but Nagashima, ironically, defended his pitcher. The Yomiuri Giants ) are a popular Central League baseball team based at the Tokyo Dome in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. ...
Shigeo Nagashima (長嶋茂雄 Nagashima Shigeo, born February 20, 1936) is a famous Japanese baseball player in Japan. ...
// A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Bob, Rob, Robby, Robbie, Robi, Bobby, Rab, Bert, Bertie, Butch, Bobbers, Bobert, Bobadito, Robban, (in Sweden), is short for Robert). ...
Wright eventually became popular by throwing baseballs into the stands for young fans. He went 8-7 in that first season with the Giants and won Game 5 of the Japan Series, hitting a home run in that game. However, he lost Game 7 on two late inning home runs; he had told an interpreter to ask the team to remove him due to fatigue. The Yomiuri Giants have won twenty Japan Series, more than any other team. ...
In baseball, a home run is a base hit in which the batter is able to circle all the bases, ending at home plate and scoring a run himself (along with a run scored by each runner who was already on base), with no errors by the defensive team on...
Trivia - Wright's 22-win season in 1970 made him, to date, the only Angel left-hander to win 20 games in a season. It also remains tied as a franchise record, Nolan Ryan having equaled it in 1974.
- Wright had a brief bout with alcoholism after his Major League Baseball days. He began drinking heavily while in Japan, and over the next few years the problem became worse. In 1996 he told the Los Angeles Times that in 1979, his wife Vicki gave him an ultimatum: stop drinking or she would leave him. "I went golfing one day and then drinking and when I came home, she was gone. When she came back, Jaret was in the van. I went to open the door and he pushed the lock down. He was 3 years old." [2]
Nolan Ryan pitching in Atlanta on June 28, 1983 Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. ...
This article is currently under construction // This year in baseball Events January 16 - The Baseball Writers Association of America elects former New York Yankees teammates Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford to the Hall of Fame. ...
Alcoholism is the obsessive preoccupation with, alcoholic beverages to the extent that such use interferes with the drinkers normal personal, family, social, or work life, and may lead to physical, or mental harm. ...
The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the western United States. ...
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