finalyear death_date death_place bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1950 10 january 1997 toronto , ontario right penetanguishene , ontario 1940 july 16 68 -- 75 3.93 481 pitcher boston red sox win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts september 22 25 october 1913 phil marchildon
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phil marchildon

philip joseph `` babe '' marchildon -lrb- october 25 , 1913 -- january 10 , 1997 -rrb- was a canadian major league baseball pitcher .
born in penetanguishene , ontario , marchildon pitched 1,214 innings with a record of 68 wins and 75 losses and a career era of 3.93 for the philadelphia athletics and the boston red sox from 1940 to 1942 and from 1945 to 1950 .
during world war ii he served in the royal canadian air force as a tail gunner in a halifax bomber and was later a prisoner of war at the infamous stalag luft iii in germany for the final nine months of the war .
marchildon was named to canada 's sports hall of fame in 1976 , then was inducted into the canadian baseball hall of fame in 1983 , in its initial year , and the penetanguishene sports hall of fame , in the city of his birth , in 1987 .
he was later inducted into the ontario sports hall of fame in 1996 .
phil marchildon died in toronto on friday , january 10 , 1997 at age 83 .
