Here’s a Vintage Autograph Album Leaf Signed by
FOUR (4) 1960’s MLB BASEBALL PITCHERS
BRUCE HOWARD
(b. 1943)
MLB PITCHER FOR THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX, BALTIMORE ORIOLES, and WASHINGTON SENATORS 1963-1968
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BOB LOCKER
(1938-2022)
MLB PITCHER FOR THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX, OAKLAND ATHLETICS and CHICAGO CUBS 1963-1968.
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JIM GOLDEN
(b. 1936)
MLB PITCHER FOR THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS 1960-1961, and HOUSTON COLT .45s 1962-1963
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CARL BOULDIN
(b. 1939)
MLB PITCHER FOR THE WASHINGTON SENATORS 1961-64.
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Two other players
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The document measures 4½” x 5¾” and is in VERY FINE CONDITION.
A FINE RELIC OF MLB BASEBALL HISTORY.
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BIOGRAPHY OF BRUCE HOWARD
Bruce Ernest Howard (born March 23, 1943) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher with the Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles and Washington Senators between 1963 and 1968. A native of Salisbury, Maryland, he attended Villanova University. His son, David Howard, also played in the major leagues.
He was traded along with Don Buford and Roger Nelson from the White Sox to the Orioles for Luis Aparicio, Russ Snyder and John Matias on November 29, 1967.[1] He went 0–2 with a 3.77 earned run average (ERA) in 31 innings with the Orioles before being dealt to the Senators for Fred Valentine before the trade deadline on June 15, 1968.[2]
In a six-season career, Howard posted a 26–31 record with 349 strikeouts and a 3.18 ERA in 120 appearances, including seven complete games, four shutouts, one save, and 528+2⁄3 innings of work.
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Bruce Howard |
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Born: March 23, 1943
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Batted: Switch Threw: Right |
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MLB debut |
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September 4, 1963, for the Chicago White Sox |
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Last MLB appearance |
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September 7, 1968, for the Washington Senators |
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MLB statistics |
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26–31 |
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3.18 |
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349 |
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BIOGRAPHY OF BOB LOCKER
Robert Awtry Locker (March 15, 1938 – August 15, 2022) was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He pitched from 1965 to 1975 for five different teams. The sinker-balling Locker never made a start in his big-league career.
Biography
Locker graduated from George High School in 1956, where he played baseball and basketball. He enrolled at Iowa State University, and made the varsity team in both sports. Locker graduated from ISU in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. After graduation, he signed his first professional baseball contract, with the Chicago White Sox.
Career
Minor Leagues (1960–61, 1964)
Locker began his professional career in 1960 at Idaho Falls, appearing in a handful of games. The next year, he made 33 starts, winning 15 games, pitching 228 innings and leading the Three-I league with 215 strikeouts.
Locker missed the next two seasons due to military service. He returned to baseball in 1964, and winning 16 games for Indianapolis. It would be his last year in the minors.
Chicago White Sox (1965–1969)
At age 27, Bob Locker had made the big leagues, joining a bullpen that featured knuckleballers Hoyt Wilhelm and Eddie Fisher. He made his debut in Baltimore on April 14, 1965, tossing two innings and giving up three runs. Locker settled down, however, and in a stretch from May 30 to June 20—10 total appearances—he was unscored upon. He would finish his rookie campaign with 93+1⁄3 innings pitched and a 3.15 earned-run average.
During his time in Chicago, Locker was the most often-used reliever. He appeared in 77 games in 1967 and 70 games in 1968. In 1969, Locker got off to a rough start (2–3 record, 6.55 ERA), and on June 8, the White Sox shipped him to the expansion Seattle Pilots for Gary Bell.
Seattle Pilots (1969) / Milwaukee Brewers (1970)
Upon arriving in Seattle, the 31-year-old Locker began a reversal of fortune, posting a 2.18 ERA for an expansion team that would finish in last place in the division. He finished the season with a flourish, allowing just eight runs in his last 30 appearances on the season.
When the Seattle Pilots moved to Milwaukee at the end of spring training, 1970, Locker went with them and appeared in 28 games for the Brewers.
Oakland Athletics (1970–1972)
Locker's contract was purchased by the Athletics from the Brewers on June 15, 1970.[3] He made his presence felt once he arrived in Oakland, having allowed no runs in his first seven innings for the Athletics. His most impressive outing came on August 12, 1970, against the Cleveland Indians, in which he pitched 5+2⁄3 of scoreless relief, the longest outing of his career.
In 1972, Locker was a key member of the World Series champion team, posting a 6–1 record and 2.65 ERA, often appearing in the seventh and eighth innings as the setup man for closer Rollie Fingers. Locker struggled in the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers, giving up three runs in two innings of work. On October 21, he made his first and only World Series appearance, relieving Vida Blue with two outs in the sixth inning of Game 6. He gave up a single to Tony Pérez but got the final out of the inning before being removed for a pinch-hitter.
A month later, Oakland traded Locker to the Chicago Cubs for outfielder Billy North.
Chicago Cubs (1973, 1975)
Pitching in the National League for the first time, Locker had one of his best seasons, winning 10 games, saving 18 and topping 100 innings pitched for the first time since 1969. In an odd twist, he was sent back to the Athletics by the Cubs for Horacio Piña at the Winter Meetings on December 3, 1973. According to Bruce Markusen in his 1998 book, Baseball's Last Dynasty: Charlie Finley's Oakland A's, Locker had told Cubs general manager John Holland that he would only pitch one season for the Cubs, then he wanted to be traded back to the A's as owner Charlie Finley had agreed to try to arrange. Locker moved his family to Oakland and planned to live and work there after his baseball career. Holland and Charlie Finley obliged the pitcher's request but it turned out to be a bad deal for the A's. Locker had to undergo surgery to remove bone chips from his pitching elbow and would sit out the entire 1974 season.
Finley sent Locker back to the Cubs just days after winning the 1974 World Series in exchange for veteran outfielder Billy Williams. Locker's 1975 season would be his last in the majors.
Retirement
Since April 2010, Locker has been the creator and webmaster of a Marvin Miller tribute site, ThanksMarvin.com. The site collects memorabilia about the late Major League Baseball Player Association Executive Director in an attempt to raise awareness of Miller's importance in the American Labor Unions in the United States and to get Miller elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame when his name came up for a ballot in 2014 as part of the "Expansion Era" group. Miller died on November 27, 2012, at the age of 95, but was selected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in December 2019, for induction in 2020.
Locker died in Bozeman, Montana, on August 15, 2022. He was 84.
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Bob Locker |
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Born: March 15, 1938 |
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Died: August 15, 2022
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Batted: Switch Threw: Right |
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MLB debut |
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April 14, 1965, for the Chicago White Sox |
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Last MLB appearance |
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June 20, 1975, for the Chicago Cubs |
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MLB statistics |
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57–39 |
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2.75 |
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577 |
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95 |
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Teams |
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Career highlights and awards |
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BIOGRAPHY OF JIM GOLDEN
James Edward Golden (born March 20, 1936) is an American former pitcher in Major League Baseball, a right-hander who appeared in 69 games over all or parts of four seasons (1960–1963) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Colt .45s. Golden batted left-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg) in his playing days.
He graduated from high school in Silver Lake, Kansas, near Topeka, and signed with the Philadelphia Phillies at age 18 in 1954. He worked his way through the Phillies' minor league system for five seasons, but was never called to the majors. Finally, in December 1958, the Phils packaged him and two other players to Los Angeles in exchange for 24-year-old second baseman Sparky Anderson, then a prospect in the Dodger farm system but a future Baseball Hall of Fame manager. The Dodgers kept Golden at Triple-A St. Paul for two full campaigns before recalling him in the closing weeks of the 1960 campaign. He won 20 games for St. Paul in 1960, and led the American Association in both wins and earned run average (2.32).
Golden then spent the full seasons of 1961 and 1962 in the major leagues. He was a relief pitcher for the pennant-contending 1961 Dodgers, working in 28 games and posting a 1–1 record with no saves. Then he was selected by the brand-new Colt .45s as the 37th pick in the 1961 Major League Baseball expansion draft.
As a member of 1962 Colts, Golden appeared in 37 games, including 18 as a starting pitcher, and won seven of 18 decisions with an earned run average of 4.07. He was credited with five complete games and two shutouts, including a five-hitter against his old Dodger teammates on June 15, defeating that year's winner of the Cy Young Award, Hall of Famer Don Drysdale, 2–0. Five of Golden's wins came at the expense of Houston's fellow National League expansion entry, the New York Mets, who lost 120 games that season. His five complete games and two shutouts would be the only ones of his MLB career.
Golden worked in three early-season 1963 games for Houston, but he was roughed up in his final appearance, a start against the St. Louis Cardinals April 23; he allowed two earned runs in 21⁄3 innings pitched before being taken out of the contest. But the Colt .45 bullpen let the game get out of hand, surrendering 13 more runs as St. Louis triumphed, 15–0. Golden then spent the rest of 1963 and all of 1964 at Triple-A before retiring from baseball.
During his MLB career, Golden posted a 9–13 record and 4.54 career earned run average in 69 games pitched; he allowed 233 hits and 76 bases on balls, with 115 strikeouts, in 208 innings pitched. He appeared in another six MLB games as a pinch runner during the 1962 season. At the plate, he batted .217 with 13 hits, including three doubles and two triples, with eight runs batted in.
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Jim Golden |
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Born: March 20, 1936
(age 87) |
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Batted: Left Threw: Right |
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MLB debut |
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September 30, 1960, for the Los Angeles Dodgers |
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Last MLB appearance |
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April 23, 1963, for the Houston Colt .45s |
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MLB statistics |
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9–13 |
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4.54 |
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115 |
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Teams |
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BIOGRAPHY OF CARL BOULDIN
Carl Edward Bouldin (born September 17, 1939) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who also played college baseball and college basketball for the University of Cincinnati, where he was a member of the NCAA Championship-winning 1960–61 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team. He played in an NCAA national championship game and in Major League Baseball the same year.[1] Bouldin was listed as 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) and 180 pounds (82 kg); in baseball, he was a switch hitter who threw right-handed.
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Carl Bouldin |
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Born: September 17, 1939
(age 84) |
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Batted: Both Threw: Right |
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MLB debut |
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September 2, 1961, for the Washington Senators |
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Last MLB appearance |
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July 5, 1964, for the Washington Senators |
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MLB statistics |
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3–8 |
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6.15 |
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36 |
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Teams |
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