finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1949 right 13 august 1996 st. louis , missouri cincinnati , ohio 1946 julu 4 1 -- 3 67 26 pitcher st. louis browns win-loss record bases on balls strikeouts september 21 9 june 1921 ray shore
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ray shore

raymond everett shore -lrb- june 9 , 1921 -- august 13 , 1996 -rrb- , nicknamed `` snacks , '' was an american pitcher , coach and scout in major league baseball .
a native of cincinnati , ohio , shore threw and batted right-handed , stood -lrb- 191 cm -rrb- tall and weighed 230 pounds -lrb- 104 kg -rrb- .
shore broke into professional baseball as a catcher before world war ii , but by the time he mustered out of military service -lrb- in the united states army air forces -rrb- in 1946 , he had converted to pitching .
while his major league pitching career was ordinary -- he appeared in 31 games over parts of three seasons -lrb- ; -- -rrb- with the st. louis browns , winning one of four decisions and compiling an earned run average of 8.23 in 62 1/3 innings pitched -- shore would become a stellar relief pitcher with the toronto maple leafs of the triple-a international league during the 1950s .
however , by the end of the 1957 season , shore 's active career was over .
he was out of the game for three seasons .
in , bill dewitt , who was the owner and general manager of the browns when shore pitched there , assumed the same positions with shore 's hometown cincinnati reds .
dewitt hired shore as the reds ' batting practice pitcher in -- , then promoted him to a full-time coaching position , which shore held from through .
in , shore became the reds ' `` superscout , '' serving as both the advance scout analyzing upcoming opponents and as a special assignment scout who evaluated playing talent at the major league level for potential acquisition in trades .
he became one of the most respected scouts of this kind in baseball , advising then-cincinnati general manager bob howsam on a series of trades -- including the deal that netted eventual baseball hall of fame second baseman joe morgan from the houston astros -- that helped cincinnati win four national league pennants and world series titles in 1975 and 1976 .
shore switched allegiances to the philadelphia phillies on november 8 , 1983 , and was still scouting for them when he died , at age 75 , during a scouting trip to st. louis in 1996 .
