finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1960 left weidman , michigan 1955 may 25 20 -- 22 3.73 398 pitcher pittsburgh pirates win-loss record earned run average innings pitched july 21 30 june 1931 don gross -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 cincinnati redlegs don gross left
don gross -lrb- baseball -rrb-

donald john gross -lrb- born june 30 , 1931 , at weidman , michigan -rrb- is a retired american baseball player whose 13-year professional career -lrb- 1950 -- 1952 ; 1954 -- 1963 -rrb- included all or parts of six seasons of major league baseball with the cincinnati redlegs -lrb- 1955 -- 1957 -rrb- and pittsburgh pirates -lrb- 1958 -- 1960 -rrb- .
a left-handed pitcher , gross stood tall and weighed .
he attended michigan state university .
gross appeared in 145 games over his mlb career , including 37 games as a starting pitcher .
overall , he won 20 of 42 decisions -lrb- .476 -rrb- , striking out 230 batters and giving up 400 hits in 398 innings of work .
his career earned run average was 3.73 .
he had a stellar record in minor league baseball , compiling a won-lost record of 68 -- 39 .
after the season , gross was traded to the pirates for right-handed pitcher bob purkey .
it proved to be an uneven swap .
gross went 6 -- 8 -lrb- 3.82 -rrb- in 66 games for the pirates , while purkey blossomed into a three-time national league all-star , winning 103 games for cincinnati over seven seasons , including a 23 -- 5 -lrb- 2.81 -rrb- campaign in .
