finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1956 left 28 august 1989 pensacola , florida benton , mississippi 1955 september 23 2 -- 2 2.89 14 56 pitcher pittsburgh pirates win pitched -- loss record earned run average strikeouts innings september 20 2 february 1927 fred waters
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fred waters

fred warren waters -lrb- february 2 , 1927 -- august 28 , 1989 -rrb- was an american professional baseball player , manager , scout and coach .
the left-handed pitcher appeared in 25 major league games for the -- pittsburgh pirates .
born in benton , mississippi , waters attended the university of southern mississippi .
he stood tall and weighed .
apart from his trials with the pirates , waters had a 13-season -lrb- 1949 -- 1958 ; 1960 -- 1962 -rrb- pitching career in minor league baseball .
he was first signed by the brooklyn dodgers , then acquired by the milwaukee braves in april 1953 , spending most of that season with the lincoln chiefs of the class a western league .
then , on december 26 , 1953 , he was traded to pittsburgh along with third baseman sid gordon , outfielder sam jethroe , pitcher max surkont , fellow minor leaguers curt raydon and larry lasalle , and $ 100,000 for third baseman danny o'connell .
this is the only six-for-one trade in major league history and was surpassed only by the seven-for-one deal that sent vida blue from the oakland athletics to the san francisco giants in 1978 .
waters appeared in two games in relief for the pirates at the end of the 1955 season , then worked in 23 games for the pirates over the last three months of 1956 after his recall from the open-classification hollywood stars of the pacific coast league .
both of his mlb victories came in starting roles .
his first big-league triumph came on july 26 , when he went seven shutout innings against the chicago cubs , allowing only four singles and three bases on balls .
howie pollet relieved waters in the eighth inning with two runners on base , and preserved the 4 -- 0 shutout win .
over his 25 major league games and 56 innings pitched , waters allowed 55 hits and compiled a strong 2.89 career earned run average .
however , he issued 32 bases on balls , with only 14 strikeouts .
waters appeared in only seven minor league games in 1958 and sat out the 1959 season completely .
he became a high school baseball coach in pensacola , florida .
but in 1960 , at age 33 , he returned to baseball as a pitcher-coach for the class d pensacola angels of the alabama-florida league .
in three seasons with pensacola 's professional franchise , he appeared in 73 games , largely as a starting pitcher , and compiled a 41 -- 13 record and a sparkling 2.04 earned run average .
in 1964 , waters became a manager and coach in the farm system of the minnesota twins , while continuing his high school coaching duties in pensacola .
during waters ' 22 seasons as a manager , all of them in short-season leagues -lrb- rookie and short season-a levels -rrb- , his teams went 681 -- 664 -lrb- .505 -rrb- .
waters retired from managing after the 1986 season , and died in pensacola three years later at the age of 62 .
