finalyear death_date death_place bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1953 30 october 1997 columbia , south carolina right columbia , south carolina 1953 april 22 0 -- 0 9.00 1 pitcher cincinnati reds win -- los record earned run average strikeouts april 22 3 march 1923 barney martin -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 cincinnati reds barney martin right
barney martin -lrb- baseball -rrb-

barnes robertson martin -lrb- march 3 , 1923 -- october 30 , 1997 -rrb- was an american baseball pitcher who had a `` cup of coffee '' with the cincinnati reds in .
though martin appeared in just one major league baseball game , he had a respectable ten year minor league career .
originally signed by the new york giants as an amateur free agent before the season , martin compiled a 44-43 record and 4.06 earned run average in five seasons in their farm system .
he was then acquired by the reds sometime in the season , and compiled a 23-7 record , 2.13 era and a south atlantic league leading 174 strikeouts for the columbia reds in his home town of columbia , south carolina in .
that performance earned him a spot with the big league club for .
already losing 6-2 to the st. louis cardinals with stan musial set to lead off the seventh inning , manager rogers hornsby summoned martin to relieve bud podbielan in the sixth game of the season on april 22 , .
martin retired musial , and got out of his first inning of work unscathed .
in his second inning , however , martin allowed a lead off triple to rip repulski , followed by a double by del rice .
after retiring the next two batters , it appeared martin would get out of the inning with just the one run scored , however , red schoendienst followed with a double to drive in rice , and bring musial back to the plate .
musial grounded out to short to end the inning without further damage .
five days later , martin was optioned back to columbia , where he would compile a 17-6 record with a 2.14 era .
his overall minor league stats include 104 wins versus 74 losses in 245 games -lrb- 128 starts -rrb- .
his minor league era was 3.35 .
while pitching for columbia , he was the team 's bus driver and was also a railroad engineer for southern railway .
though martin batted and threw right-handed , his son , michael , was a left hander , who was selected fifth overall in the 1970 major league baseball draft by the philadelphia phillies .
a year later , his other son , jerry signed with the club as an outfielder .
despite having spent three seasons together in the same organization , the two were never teammates .
jerry went on to an eleven season mlb career with the phillies , chicago cubs , san francisco giants , kansas city royals and new york mets .
michael spent seven seasons in the phillies , los angeles dodgers and cubs organizations , but never made it to the majors .
jerry infamously became the first active major leaguer to serve jail time -lrb- along with royals teammates willie aikens and willie wilson -rrb- when he pleaded guilty to attempting to purchase cocaine on november 17 , .
