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James Hoyt Wilhelm (July 26, 1922 – August 23, 2002), nicknamed "Old Sarge", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, California Angels, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, and Los Angeles Dodgers between 1952 and 1972.
The Indians declined to tender Hoyt a major league contract for the 2019 season by the November 30, 2018 deadline, making Hoyt a free agent. The Indians re-signed Hoyt to a minor league contract on December 1, 2018. [15] On September 1, 2019, the Indians selected Hoyt's contract. Hoyt was designated for assignment on December 2. [16]
June 19 – In a brilliant pair of pitching performances, Orioles pitchers Hoyt Wilhelm and Milt Pappas throw shutouts to beat the host Detroit Tigers in a twin bill. Wilhelm allows two hits in winning the opener, 2–0, over Jim Bunning, and Pappas surrenders three hits in winning the nightcap, 1–0, over Don Mossi.
The baseball field that Tom Hanks famously graced in the 1992 film "A League of Their Own" went up in flames Thursday in Ontario, according to authorities.
Major League Baseball career statistics are from Baseball-Reference.com. Eddie Cicotte is credited as the inventor of the knuckleball. Hoyt Wilhelm won 124 games in relief, the major league record, and was the first pitcher to reach 200 saves and the first to appear in 1,000 games. R. A. Dickey reinvented his career by developing a knuckleball.
James Hoyt may refer to: James Hoyt (baseball) (born 1986), American baseball pitcher; James Hoyt (footballer) (born 1990), Fijian winger; James Hoyt (soldier) (1925–2008), American soldier, co-discoverer of the Buchenwald concentration camp; James Henry Hoyt (1809–1873), Connecticut state senator
Catcher Joe Ginsberg of the Orioles loses a struggle with Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball facing the Athletics, and ties the record set six days earlier by teammate Gus Triandos with three passed balls in one inning. Grand slams by Boston Red Sox teammates Vic Wertz and Rip Repulski at Fenway Park give Boston a 9–7 win over the Chicago White Sox.
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