finalyear death_date debutyear statvalue finalteam birth_date death_place finaldate image statlabel debutteam name throws caption birth_place debutdate bats position article_title
1968 13 june 2000 1952 9-25 3.84 204 chicago cubs 10 october 1929 desloge , missouri september 21 file : bobby tiefenauer.jpg win-loss record earned run average strikeouts st. louis cardinals bobby tiefenauer right tiefenauer in 1961 desloge , missouri july 14 right pitcher bobby tiefenauer

bobby tiefenauer

bobby gene tiefenauer -lrb- october 10 , 1929 -- june 13 , 2000 -rrb- was an american professional baseball player .
a knuckleball relief pitcher , he pitched for six major league teams during a ten-year mlb career that stretched between and : the st. louis cardinals -lrb- 1952 , 1955 , 1961 -rrb- , cleveland indians -lrb- 1960 , 1965 -- 67 -rrb- , houston colt .45 s -lrb- 1962 -rrb- , milwaukee braves -lrb- 1963 -- 65 -rrb- , new york yankees -lrb- 1965 -rrb- and the chicago cubs -lrb- 1968 -rrb- .
tiefenauer was born in desloge , missouri .
in 1948 he was selected by the cardinals as an amateur free agent .
in 1964 with the milwaukee braves he had one of his better seasons , saving 13 games -lrb- 8th best in the national league -rrb- with an era of 3.21 .
like many pitchers , tiefenauer was a notoriously bad hitter , having only 1 hit in 39 at-bats for a career batting average of .026 .
the one hit was an extra base hit , a double .
and it was off of one of the best pitchers in baseball that year , jack sanford of the san francisco giants .
the hit occurred in the fourth inning of the game between the houston colt 45 's and the san francisco giants on september 29 , 1962 .
bobby pitched 6 innings in relief that day for houston , and also came up to bat in the sixth inning when he grounded out to shortstop .
tiefenauer was elected to the international league hall of fame in 2008 .
