Don Drysdale

Don Drysdale
Don Drysdale in the jersey of the Dodgers (1961)
Pitcher
Born: July 23, 1936 Van Nuys ,  United States
Died on: July 3, 1993, Montreal ,  Canada
Suggested: Right	Threw: Right
Debut in Major League Baseball
April 17,  1956  with the  Brooklyn Dodgers
Last MLB assignment
August 5,  1969  with the  Los Angeles Dodgers
MLB statistics (until end of career)
Win - Loss	209-166
ERA	2.95
Strikeouts	2,486
Batting average	.186
Runs Batted In	113
Home runs	29
Teams
Brooklyn Dodgers (1956-1957) Los Angeles Dodgers (1958-1969)
Awards
9 × All-Star ( 1959 , 1959 (2nd game), 1961 (second game), 1962 - 1965 , 1967 , 1968 ) 3 × World Series winner ( 1959 , 1963 , 1965 ) Cy Young Award (1962) In his honor, the No. 53 is no longer awarded by the Los Angeles Dodgers
member of
Baseball Hall of Fame
Recorded	1984
Quota	78.41%
Last update: February 23, 2019

Donald Scott "Don" Drysdale , nickname Big D , (born July 23, 1936 in Van Nuys , California , † July 3, 1993 in Montreal , Québec ) was an American baseball player in Major League Baseball (MLB) on the position of the pitcher . For most of his career he was with the Los Angeles Dodgers under contract, for which he ran for twelve years.

Drysdale won the World Series with the Dodgers in 1959 , 1963 and 1965 . He was also elected to the All-Star Team nine times and won the Cy Young Award in 1962 . After his active career as a player, he worked as a commentator for various MLB franchises and television channels. In 1984 Drysdale was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame . He was famous for his sidearm fastball and brushback pitches designed to intimidate opposing batsmen .

biography

Professional career in the MLB

Drysdale was born in Van Nuys , a borough of Los Angeles in 1936 . Drysdale gained his first professional baseball experience in 1954 in the California League with the Bakersfield Indians. There he pitched 15 games and had eight wins and five losses . A year later he played in the Triple-A for the Montreal Royals. For the Royals he made 28 games and had eleven wins and eleven losses. On April 17, 1956, he made his MLB debut in the shirt of the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Philadelphia Phillies . In his first game he pitched only one inning and threw a base on balls . The Phillies won the game 8-6. With four shutouts , Drysdale led the National League (NL) in these statistics in 1959 . In the same year he won his first World Series . In 1962 he won the Cy Young Award and was the most victorious pitcher in the NL with 25 wins. In 1963 Drysdale threw 251 strikeouts and won the third game of the World Series against the New York Yankees .

In 1965 Drysdale won 23 games and its third and final World Series . Three years later, he pitched 58 ² ⁄ ₃  consecutive innings in which he did not allow opposing points. This record was only to be broken 20 years later by Orel Hershiser . Because of persistent shoulder problems, he had to end his career early and thus made his last game for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Pittsburgh Pirates on August 5, 1969 . He pitched six innings that game, but the Dodgers lost the game 3-11.

Drysdale was, despite the position of pitcher, a good batsman and was even used as a pinch hitter , including one in the 1965 World Series. He finished his career with 29 home runs (HR), 113 batted in runs (RBI ) and a batting average (AVG) of .186. His pitching statistics amount to 209 wins (W), an earned run average (ERA) of 2.95 and 2,486 thrown strikeouts (K), and 49 shutouts (SHO).

Activity as a commentator

After his career as an active player, Drysdale has worked as a commentator for various MLB franchises and television networks. He worked for the California Angels , Montreal Expos and ten years for the US television station ABC , and from 1988 until his death for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Outside the field of play

Drysdale married model Ginger Dubberly in 1958 and had a daughter with her. However, that marriage ended in divorce in 1982. On November 1, 1986 Drysdale married the basketball player Ann Meyers who had two sons and a daughter. This was the first time that spouses were represented in the Hall of Fame for their respective sport.

Drysdale died of a heart attack on July 3, 1993 at the age of 56 in his Montreal hotel room and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale , California .

Web links

Commons : Don Drysdale  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player information and statistics from MLB  or  Baseball Reference  or  Fangraphs  or  Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
• Don Drysdale in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Official website (English)
• Don Drysdale in the Baseball Hall of Fame (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Drysdale's entry in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Baseball Hall of Fame , accessed February 23, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Philadelphia Phillies at Brooklyn Dodgers Box Score, April 17, 1956. Baseball-Reference.com , accessed February 23, 2019 . 
3. ↑ 1968 Year of the Pitcher. thisgreatgame.com, accessed February 23, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Pittsburgh Pirates at Los Angeles Dodgers Box Score, August 5, 1969. Baseball-Reference.com, accessed February 23, 2019 . 
5. ^ Murray Chass: World Series: Notebook; Kaat Knows Something About Pitchers at the Plate. The New York Times , October 27, 1991, accessed February 24, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Richard D. Lyons: Don Drysdale Is Dead at Age 56; Hall of Fame Pitcher for Dodgers. New York Times, July 4, 1993, accessed February 23, 2019 . 
7. ^ ^{A b} Bill Lee: The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others . MacFarland, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4766-0930-0 , pp. 111 (English, google.de [accessed on February 24, 2019]).
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Richard D. Lyons: Don Drysdale, Hall of Fame Pitcher, Dies at 56. The New York Times, July 5, 1993, accessed February 23, 2019 .