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Former Brooklyn Dodger Cal McLish passes away at 84

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The owner of the longest full name in baseball history, Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish passed away Thursday morning at the age of 84.

Cal McLish made his debut in 1944 at the tender age of 18 with the Brooklyn Dodgers during World War II straight out of Central High School in Oklahoma City. He would miss the subsequent season due to his own military service and would later go on to play 15 seasons in the majors with six additional teams, the Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox. He appeared in the 1959 All-Star game where he earned a save, pitching the final two scoreless innings for the victorious American League squad.

After his playing career was finished, he was a major league pitching coach for 16 seasons and then went on to become a scout and an instructor, as recently as 2005 with the Seattle Mariners.


More Info -

Cal McLish has lived a great baseball life - Berry Tramel

Oklahoma native, former Major League Baseball player Cal McLish dies at 84 - The Oklahoman

Cal McLish (World War II History) - Baseball In Wartime

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Nicholas Diunte is an educator, writer and member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) living in New York City. A former college baseball player, coach and university professor, Diunte has merged his love for baseball and scholarship by chronicling baseball's history through oral...

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