finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1950 left 19 october 2001 san clemente , california wilkes-barre , pennsylvania 1950 september 28 0 -- 3 5.70 8 pitcher philadelphia athletics win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts august 17 11 november 1920 joe murray -lrb- baseball -rrb-
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joe murray -lrb- baseball -rrb-

joseph ambrose murray -lrb- november 11 , 1920 -- october 19 , 2001 -rrb- was a pitcher who played in major league baseball during the season .
listed at 6 ' 0 '' , 165 lb. , murray batted and threw left-handed .
he was born in wilkes-barre , pennsylvania .
at age 29 , it had been a long journey to the major leagues for joe murray .
the southpaw hurler debuted in 1940 with class-d easton , an eastern shore league affiliate team of the new york yankees .
he would spend his next three seasons with three different clubs , compiling a 35 -- 25 record and a 3.70 earned run average in four full seasons , but his baseball career was interrupted in 1943 after he entered service in the united states navy during world war ii .
following his discharge in 1946 , murray was part of successive transactions between the yankees , washington senators and philadelphia athletics organizations .
in 1947 , he led the class-b colonial league with a 2.34 era while going 12 -- 7 in 22 pitching appearances .
his most productive season came in 1950 , when he posted a 20 -- 14 record with a 2.94 era and was selected for the florida international league all-star team .
finally , murray had his chance to play in the major leagues when he joined the last-place athletics on august 17 , 1950 .
he lost all three of his decisions in eight games -lrb- two starts -rrb- , allowing 20 runs -lrb- 19 earned -rrb- on 34 hits and 21 walks while striking out eight batters .
he registered a 5.70 era in 30 innings of work .
after his brief stint with the athletics , murray returned to the minors and pitched from 1951 through 1953 .
in an eleven-season career , he finished with a 111 -- 113 mark and a 3.87 era in 344 games .
he later managed the wytheville statesmen of the appalachian league in 1954 .
when his baseball career ended , murray went to work for union carbide and later worked as a construction company roofing contractor .
he was a long-time resident of san clemente , california , where he died at the age of 80 .
