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Fan-favorite Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela has died at 63. Nicknamed "El Toro," Valenzuela went on to be a household name in Los Angeles while he pitched 10 more seasons for the Dodgers.
Valenzuela was also one of the better hitting pitchers of his era. He had ten career home runs and was occasionally used by Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda as a pinch-hitter. [3] In 1986, he signed the then-largest contract for a pitcher in baseball history ($5.5 million/3 years). [4]
Jim Creighton - Brooklyn Excelsiors's second baseman and superstar pitcher of the amateur era who died aged 21 of a ruptured abdominal hernia caused by the force of his own pitch in 1862. Lou Gehrig - New York Yankees 's first baseman who was forced into retirement after being diagnosed with ALS , he would ultimately die from the disease, two ...
Carl Daniel Erskine (December 13, 1926 – April 16, 2024), nicknamed "Oisk", was an American baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 1948 through 1959. He was a pitching mainstay on Dodger teams which won five National League pennants and the 1955 World Series.
Former Major League Baseball pitcher and broadcaster Fernando Valenzuela has died, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced Tuesday night. He was 63. The Dodgers organization did not provide a cause of ...
Carl Erskine, who pitched two no-hitters as a mainstay on the Brooklyn Dodgers and was a 20-game winner in 1953 when he struck out a then-record 14 in the World Series, died Tuesday. Erksine died ...
Reyes Armando Moronta (January 6, 1993 – July 28, 2024) was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Los Angeles Angels. Moronta signed with the Giants as an international free agent in 2010 and played in MLB from 2017 to ...
Carl Erskine, one of the last surviving Brooklyn Dodgers and a mainstay of a pitching rotation that carried the team to four World Series, has died at 97.