Dick Donovan
Pitcher, Baseball Player
1927 – 1997
Who was Dick Donovan?
Richard Edward "Dick" Donovan was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Boston Braves, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, and the Cleveland Indians.
Donovan batted left-handed and threw right-handed. During a 15-year baseball career, he compiled 122 wins, 880 strikeouts, and a 3.67 earned run average.
Donovan, as a member of the White Sox, pitched in the 1959 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He lost his only World Series start in Game 3, but saved Game 5 for the White Sox, and pitched in relief in Game 6, allowing two hits, three earned runs, walked one, and struck out none. In his only postseason appearance, he compiled 0 wins, 1 loss, 1 save, 5 strikeouts, and a 5.40 earned run average. At the plate in the Series, he went 1-3.
His 1962 season was his career-best, when he won 20 games in 34 games started with 16 complete games and five shutouts in 250-1/3 innings, all of them new career-highs.
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- Born
- Dec 27, 1927
Boston - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Boston
- Died
- Jan 6, 1997
Weymouth
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on July 23, 2013
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