Russ Meyer
Pitcher, Baseball Player
1923 – 1998
Who was Russ Meyer?
Russell Charles Meyer was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. His nickname was "Mad Monk".
Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent in 1942, Meyer would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Chicago Cubs on September 13, 1946, and appear in his final game on June 28, 1959.
Meyer was the first of three pitchers in Major League history to have gone at least 23 consecutive road starts without a loss: Allie Reynolds set the record with 25, spanning the 1948 and 1949 seasons, a feat current San Diego Padres pitcher Chris Young fell one short of. Meyer went 24 consecutive road starts without a loss during the 1953 and 1954 seasons.
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- Born
- Oct 25, 1923
Peru - Profession
- Lived in
- Peru
- Died
- Nov 16, 1998
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on July 23, 2013
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