finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1948 right 21 november 1991 santa ana , california fayetteville , arkansas 1947 september 26 8 -- 16 5.16 214 2/3 pitcher st. louis browns win -- loss record earned run average innings pitched may 15 14 july 1920 bryan stephens
 cleveland indians bryan stephens right
bryan stephens

bryan maris stephens -lrb- july 14 , 1920 -- november 21 , 1991 -rrb- was an american professional baseball player .
the native of fayetteville , arkansas , a right-handed pitcher , appeared in 74 major league games -- 31 for the cleveland indians and 43 for the st. louis browns .
he stood tall and weighed .
stephens attended washington high school in los angeles county , california , and signed with the detroit tigers in 1939 .
the following season he was acquired by the indians and spent 1940 -- 1942 in their farm system , winning 20 of 24 decisions in 1942 for the class b cedar rapids raiders of the illinois-indiana-iowa league .
he then missed the 1943 -- 1945 seasons while serving in the united states army during world war ii .
after one more year of minor league seasoning in 1946 , stephens made the 1947 indians ' roster .
in his first major league appearance , as a starting pitcher on may 15 against the washington senators at griffith stadium , stephens scattered eight hits , all singles , in a complete game , 9 -- 1 triumph over eventual baseball hall of fame pitcher early wynn .
sent to the bullpen by manager lou boudreau , stephens then went over a month before his next starting assignment -- again at washington and against wynn .
this time , on june 19 , stephens took the loss , 3 -- 2 , and left for a pinch hitter after the fifth inning .
altogether , he made five starts for cleveland was used exclusively as a relief pitcher after july 15 .
he fashioned a 5 -- 10 win -- loss mark and a 4.01 earned run average , with one save , in 92 innings pitched for the indians .
traded to the browns during the offseason , stephens worked out of the bullpen early in the 1948 season before making six successive starts during june ; however , he lost his first four decisions before throwing another complete game , a 9 -- 6 win over the boston red sox at sportsman 's park , winning the game himself by driving in three runs with an eighth-inning double off mel parnell .
-lrb- bryan stephens was one of three players with a similar surname who played in that game , including boston 's vern stephens and the browns ' first baseman , chuck stevens . -rrb-
but bryan stephens ' year with the browns had few bright spots : he collected three saves and posted three wins , against six losses , with a poor 6.02 earned run average in 122 2/3 innings pitched .
he spent the next two seasons , his last as a professional , in the minors .
all told , stephens allowed 220 hits and 106 bases on balls in 214 2/3 major league innings pitched , with 69 strikeouts .
