Dick Calmus | |
Position: | Pitcher |
Birth Date: | 7 January 1944 |
Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California |
Bats: | Right |
Throws: | Right |
Debutleague: | MLB |
Debutdate: | April 22 |
Debutyear: | 1963 |
Debutteam: | Los Angeles Dodgers |
Finalleague: | MLB |
Finaldate: | September 2 |
Finalyear: | 1967 |
Finalteam: | Chicago Cubs |
Statleague: | MLB |
Stat1label: | Record |
Stat1value: | 3-1 |
Stat2label: | ERA |
Stat2value: | 3.17 |
Stat3label: | Strikeouts |
Stat3value: | 26 |
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Richard Lee Calmus (born January 7, 1944) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He attended Webster High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was the Tulsa World's Oklahoma basketball player of the year in 1962.[1] He played baseball on the same high school team as fellow future major leaguer Carl Morton and won two state titles.[2]
Signed as a "bonus baby" by the Los Angeles Dodgers (and thus required to stay on the major league roster for his first season), he posted a 3–1 record and 2.66 ERA in 1963 but then developed arm trouble in the minor leagues; later traded to the Chicago Cubs, he never won another game in the majors.[3]
He is the uncle of Rocky Calmus, who played in the NFL after winning the Butkus Award in 2001 as a linebacker for the University of Oklahoma.[4]