Facts: - finalteam: baltimore orioles - finalyear: 1954 - death place: san antonio , texas - statlabel: win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts - position: pitcher - statvalue: 43 -- 72 4.33 342 - throws: right - debutteam: cincinnati reds - bats: right - debutdate: september 28 - death date: 9 october 1955 - birth date: 1 march 1921 - finaldate: september 25 - name: howie fox - image: howiefox1953bowman.jpg - birth place: coburg , oregon - debutyear: 1944 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of howie fox .
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howard francis fox -lrb- march 1 , 1921 -- october 9 , 1955 -rrb- was a pitcher in major league baseball who played for three different teams between the 1944 and 1954 seasons .listed at 6 ' 3 '' , 210 lb. , fox batted and threw right-handed .he was born in coburg , oregon .a hard thrower with a sharp curveball , fox was signed by the cincinnati reds as a free agent in 1943 out of the university of oregon .he entered the majors in 1945 with the reds , playing seven years before joining the philadelphia phillies -lrb- 1952 -rrb- and baltimore orioles -lrb- 1954 -rrb- .his most productive season came in 1950 for cincinnati , when he went 11 -- 8 , a year after his 6 -- 19 record gave him the most losses of any pitcher in the major leagues .in 1951 , he collected nine victories with a 3.83 era in a career-high 228 innings , but got 14 losses .before the 1952 season , fox was dealt to philadelphia in a seven-player transaction that included smoky burgess , niles jordan , eddie pellagrini , connie ryan , andy seminick and dick sisler .in 1953 , he played for triple-a baltimore , and a year later pitched his last season , for the orioles .in nine major league seasons , fox posted a 43 -- 72 record with 342 strikeouts and a 4.33 era in 248 appearances , including 132 starts , 42 complete games , five shutouts , six saves , and 1,108 1/3 innings of work .a good-hitting pitcher , he was used to pinch-hit periodically .in 253 games he hit .189 with two home runs and 25 rbi .fox also played in the venezuelan winter league -lrb- 1953 -- 55 -rrb- and in the 1954 caribbean series .after pitching in the texas league in 1955 , fox was stabbed to death after ejecting three men from a tavern he owned in san antonio .he was 34 years old at the time of his death .