finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1963 right 12 march 2015 tulsa , oklahoma east chicago , indiana 1957 september 25 36 -- 46 4.26 502 pitcher detroit tigers win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts july 31 25 september 1935 bob anderson -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 chicago cubs bob anderson right
bob anderson -lrb- baseball -rrb-

robert carl anderson -lrb- september 29 , 1935 -- march 12 , 2015 -rrb- was a former professional baseball pitcher in major league baseball -lrb- mlb -rrb- from 1957 -- 1963 , who played in both the chicago cubs and detroit tigers organizations .
bob anderson was involved in one of major league baseball 's most unusual and weirdest plays of all time in its long history , which occurred during a game played on june 30 , 1959 at wrigley field , between the st. louis cardinals and chicago cubs .
stan musial was at the plate , with a count of 3 -- 1 .
anderson 's next pitch was errant , evading catcher sammy taylor rolling all the way to the backstop .
the home plate umpire vic delmore called ball four , however anderson and taylor contended musial had foul tipped the ball and because the ball was still in play , and due to delmore being embroiled in an argument with the catcher and pitcher , musial took it upon himself to try for second base .
seeing that musial was breaking for second , cubs third baseman alvin dark ran to the backstop to retrieve the ball , however that ball wound up in the hands of field announcer pat pieper , but dark ended up getting it back anyway .
absentmindedly , however , delmore pulled out a new ball and gave it to taylor .
anderson finally noticed that musial was trying for second , took the new ball , and threw it to second baseman tony taylor at which anderson 's throw flew high over tony taylor 's head into centerfield .
dark , at the same time that anderson threw the new ball , threw the original ball to shortstop ernie banks .
musial , though , did not see dark 's throw and only noticing anderson 's ball fly over the second baseman 's head then tried to go to third base , however , on his way over there , was tagged by banks , and after a delay was ruled out .
oddly , in the final accounting , this most unique and different play made no difference in the end result , a 4-1 victory for the visiting cardinals .
