finalyear death_date debutyear statvalue finalteam birth_date death_place finaldate image statlabel debutteam name throws caption birth_place debutdate bats position article_title
1963 13 january 1987 1951 67 -- 47 3.61 364 64 los angeles angels 20 may 1930 anaheim , california june 8 tom morgan 1962.png win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts saves new york yankees tom morgan right morgan in 1962 . el monte , california april 20 right pitcher tom morgan -lrb- baseball -rrb-

tom morgan -lrb- baseball -rrb-

tom stephen morgan -lrb- may 20 , 1930 -- january 13 , 1987 -rrb- was a major league baseball pitcher .
a native of el monte , california , the 6 ' 2 '' , 195 lb .
right-hander was signed by the new york yankees as an amateur free agent before the 1949 season .
he played for the yankees -lrb- 1951 -- 52 ; 1954 -- 56 -rrb- , kansas city athletics -lrb- 1957 -rrb- , detroit tigers -lrb- 1958 -- 60 -rrb- , washington senators -lrb- 1960 -rrb- , and los angeles angels -lrb- 1961 -- 63 -rrb- .
a farmer in his native california , his nickname was `` plowboy . ''
morgan was both as a starting pitcher and as a relief pitcher during his career .
in his first five seasons he had a combined 38-22 record with 26 saves for the yankees and appeared in three world series -lrb- 1952 , 1955 , and 1956 -rrb- .
he started 46 games for new york and relieved in 110 others .
on june 30 , 1954 , morgan tied a major league baseball record for most hit batsmen in an inning -lrb- 3 -rrb- vs. the boston red sox .
from 1957 to 1960 he pitched mostly in relief for the a 's , tigers , and senators , with a record of 16-21 and 18 saves in 167 games .
he was then acquired by the expansion los angeles angels from the minnesota twins on january 31 , 1961 .
in 1961 and 1962 morgan teamed with art fowler to give the angels a pair of closers .
morgan 's combined record for those two seasons was 13-4 with 19 saves and a 2.57 earned run average in 107 relief appearances .
he pitched poorly during the first half of the 1963 season and was eventually released .
career totals include a 67-47 record in 443 games pitched , 61 games started , 18 complete games , 7 shutouts , 204 games finished , 64 saves , and an era of 3.61 .
he hit .186 with 5 home runs in 247 at bats .
he made two errors in his last five seasons -lrb- 202 games -rrb- .
after his player career was over , morgan worked as a pitching coach for the california angels from 1972 -- 74 and 1981 -- 83 , the san diego padres in 1975 , and the yankees in 1979 .
he also worked as a minor league instructor for the angels and a scout for the yankees and atlanta braves .
tom morgan died on thursday , january 15 , 1987 , at age 56 due to complications from a stroke he had suffered one week earlier .
