finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1960 left 14 may 2004 wolfeboro , new hampshire troy , new york 1955 may 5 4.58 7 -- 25 130 pitcher baltimore orioles earned run average record strikeouts august 15 31 july 1931 rip coleman
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rip coleman

walter gary `` rip '' coleman -lrb- july 31 , 1931 -- may 14 , 2004 -rrb- was an american professional baseball player , a left-handed pitcher who played from 1955 to 1957 and 1959 to 1960 for the new york yankees , kansas city athletics and baltimore orioles of major league baseball .
a native of troy , new york he attended syracuse university and wake forest university .
before the 1952 season , coleman was signed by the yankees .
he made his big league debut with them about three years later , on august 15 , 1955 .
he went 2 -- 1 in 10 games in his rookie season .
in 29 innings of work , he allowed 40 hits and 17 earned runs for a 5.28 era .
he also walked 16 batters and struck out only 15 .
he appeared in one game in the 1955 world series , giving up five hits in one inning of work .
he showed great improvement in 1956 , lowering his era to 3.67 .
in 29 games -lrb- nine starts -rrb- , he posted a 3 -- 5 record with 42 walks and 42 strikeouts in 88 innings of work .
on february 19 , 1957 , coleman was involved in a multi-player trade between the yankees and athletics .
the yankees sent coleman , milt graff , billy hunter , mickey mcdermott , tom morgan and irv noren to the athletics for art ditmar , bobby shantz , jack mcmahan and wayne belardi .
as players to be named later , the yankees sent jack urban to the athletics and the athletics sent curt roberts and clete boyer to the yankees to complete the trade .
1957 was not a good season for rip coleman .
overall , he went 0 -- 7 with a 5.93 era in 41 innings of work .
he walked 25 batters , struck out 15 and allowed 53 hits .
he did not appear in the majors in 1958 .
in 1959 , he found his way back into the majors but again did not perform well .
overall , in 32 games -lrb- 11 starts -rrb- , he went 2 -- 10 with a 4.34 era in 85 innings of work .
on september 6 of that year he was selected off waivers by the orioles .
with them , he allowed no runs in four innings of work .
1960 would end up being coleman 's final season in the majors .
he went 0 -- 2 with an 11.25 era in five games , which included one start .
although he started a game , he pitched in only four innings total that year , walking five batters and striking out none .
in fact , in the game he started , he lasted only 1/3 of an innings .
in that time , he allowed two earned runs .
overall , rip coleman went 7 -- 25 in his career .
of the 95 games he pitched , 33 of them were starts , three of those starts were complete games and one of those complete games was a shutout .
in 247 innings , he saved five games , allowed 287 hits , 144 runs , 126 earned runs , 21 home runs and 124 walks .
he struck out 130 batters and his era was 4.58 .
he was a poor hitter , collecting five hits in 69 at-bats for a .072 batting average .
after his death at age 72 in wolfeboro , new hampshire , he was buried in oakwood cemetery in troy , new york .
