finalyear death_date death_place bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1941 2 july 1988 birmingham , alabama right birmingham , alabama 1939 september 28 1-2 6.13 13 pitcher brooklyn dodgers win-loss record earned run average strikeouts april 24 7 august 1912 tom drake -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 cleveland indians tom drake right
tom drake -lrb- baseball -rrb-

thomas kendall drake -lrb- august 7 , 1912 -- july 2 , 1988 -rrb- was a major league baseball right-handed pitcher .
in 1935 , drake started his professional baseball career with the new orleans pelicans of the southern association .
he pitched 15 innings for the cleveland indians in 1939 but gave up 15 earned runs and was sent back down to the minors .
in july 1941 , drake had a 9-5 record with nashville when the brooklyn dodgers acquired him in a trade .
he started two games for them , going 1-1 .
he spent the rest of his career in the minor leagues .
