Sunday, February 10, 2019

Tex Clevenger


Tex Clevenger pitched in the American League from 1954 to 1962, mostly in relief, for the Red Sox, Senators, Angels, and Yankees. He was from California (and still lives there) and never lived in Texas; he was called Tex because a teammate thought he looked like a former player named Tex. His given name is Truman.

Tex led American League pitchers in appearances in 1958, with 55, and led them in intentional walks in 1960, with ten. He had good success against Larry Doby, who had two singles in 15 at-bats against him; Elston Howard, 2 for 23; Gene Woodling, two triples in 19 at-bats; and Bob Nieman, two singles and six strikeouts in 23 at-bats. Tex may be best remembered for breaking Billy Martin’s jaw with a pitch in 1959.



https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/C/Pclevt101.htm
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clevete01.shtml
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?ID=9970
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/340f60bf

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