finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1972 right hawthorne , nevada 1966 september 30 68 -- 64 3.58 771 pitcher philadelphia phillies win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts july 3 9 february 1945 jim nash
 kansas city athletics jim nash right
jim nash

james edwin nash -lrb- born february 9 , 1945 in hawthorne , nevada -rrb- , commonly nicknamed jim nash , is a retired american professional baseball pitcher .
he debuted on july 3 , 1966 against the detroit tigers after then kansas city athletics signed him as a free agent .
during his rookie season in 1966 he went 12 -- 1 as part of the kiddie corps of pitchers featured in kansas city .
nash would appear on the cover of the march 13 , 1967 sports illustrated and was featured in a story along with up and coming pitchers catfish hunter and blue moon odom .
-lsb- http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8015/index.htm] nash however failed to live up to the hype from his first two seasons and ended with a career record of 68 wins and 64 losses with a lifetime era of 3.58 , allowing 1,050 hits and 441 earned runs after little more than 1,100 innings pitched .
he went on to play 4 seasons for the athletics and 3 seasons for the atlanta braves , playing his final season with the philadelphia phillies in 1972 .
