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During his 18year baseball career, he pitched for the oakland athletics 196876, san diego padres 197780 and milwaukee brewers 198185. Rollie fingers and four other members of his family appeared on a 1983 episode of the game show family feud. After watching him post inconsistent results as a starter, the as moved fingers to the bullpen. Rollie fingers society for american baseball research. His biographical data, yearbyyear hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats where applicable, career totals, uniform numbers.
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Lists and lore, stories and stats cincinnati, ohio. World series winners a complete championship history. Stats awards fabulous feats famous firsts hall of fame hitting charts legendary lists pitching charts record books rules scoring. Rollie fingers three days with the red sox baseball. Available at above link or amazon or other online book retailers, also available for kindle and other ereaders. Sponsor this page attach your namecompany to the rollie fingers page and 1 help support the baseball cube 2 remove ads from this page for other visitors. In 1974 he was given the world series mvp award while with oakland, earning two saves and one win. Its just the mindset of a relief pitcher you just have to maybe go three innings, and i knew i could pitch every day. Reardon became the alltime saves leader in baseball with 342, breaking rollie fingers previous record of 341. The rollie fingers page is available to be sponsored. Aug 18, 2011 rollie fingers 17year career epitomized the emergence of the modernday relief ace. Dick williams was regarded as one of baseballs premier managers and turnaround artists.
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