Read the bio below and try to give details on hoyt wilhelm 's: - hofdate - debutteam - birth date - debutyear - finalteam - statlabel - statvalue - death date - name - death place - birth place - position - throws - debutdate - finalyear - bats - hofvote - finaldate - image Bio: james hoyt wilhelm -lrb- july 26 , 1922 -- august 23 , 2002 -rrb- , nicknamed '' old sarge '' , was an american major league baseball -lrb- mlb -rrb- pitcher with the new york giants , st. louis cardinals , cleveland indians , baltimore orioles , chicago white sox , california angels , atlanta braves , chicago cubs , and los angeles dodgers between 1952 and 1972 . he is a member of the baseball hall of fame . after growing up in north carolina and fighting in world war ii , wilhelm spent several years in the minor leagues before starting his mlb career . he was best known for his knuckleball , which enabled him to have great longevity . he appeared occasionally as a starting pitcher , but he pitched mainly as a specialist relief man , a role in which he won 124 games , still the record for relief pitchers . he was the first pitcher to reach 200 saves and the first to appear in 1,000 games . wilhelm , who did not enter the major leagues until his late twenties , pitched until he was nearly 50 years old . wilhelm retired with one of the lowest career earned run averages in baseball history . after retiring as a player in the early 1970s , he held coaching roles with the new york yankees and atlanta braves for many years . he was a longtime resident of sarasota , florida , where he died in a nursing home of heart failure in 2002 .
- hofdate is 1985- debutteam is new york giants- birth date is 26 july 1922- debutyear is 1952- finalteam is los angeles dodgers- statlabel is win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts saves- statvalue is 143 -- 122 2.52 1,610 227- death date is 23 august 2002- name is hoyt wilhelm- death place is sarasota , florida- birth place is huntersville , north carolina- position is pitcher- throws is right- debutdate is april 19- finalyear is 1972- bats is right- hofvote is 83.8 % -lrb- eighth ballot -rrb-- finaldate is july 10- image is hoyt-wilhelm . jpg