finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1953 right 1 march 1997 midlothian , virginia amelia , virginia 1946 september 12 42 -- 55 3.84 961 pitcher new york giants win-loss record earned run average innings pitched april 18 11 may 1922 monty kennedy
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monty kennedy

montia calvin kennedy -lrb- may 11 , 1922 -- march 1 , 1997 -rrb- was an american professional baseball player , a left-handed pitcher who appeared in the major leagues from to for the new york giants .
a native of amelia , virginia , kennedy stood tall and weighed .
kennedy worked in 249 games over his mlb career , 127 as a starting pitcher .
in his rookie campaign in 1946 he led the national league in bases on balls , with 116 in 186 2/3 innings pitched .
towards the end of his career , he became a swing man , appearing as a relief pitcher and spot starter .
he was a member of the 1951 giants , the team that overcame a 13 1/2 - game deficit on august 11 to tie the brooklyn dodgers and force a three-game playoff .
while kennedy did not appear in the playoff -lrb- he last pitched on september 20 -rrb- , he contributed to the giant cause during their surge by allowing only one earned run in 7 1/3 innings of relief over five games .
the giants famously won the 1951 pennant on bobby thomson 's three-run `` walk off '' home run to make the 1951 world series against the new york yankees .
kennedy appeared in two games in relief in the fall classic .
he pitched a 1-2-3 ninth inning in game 4 , striking out joe dimaggio and gene woodling , but the following day , relieving starting pitcher larry jansen in game 5 , he surrendered a two-run home run to phil rizzuto .
the yankees won both games , as they took the series ' final three contests to come from behind to defeat the giants in six games .
during his regular season mlb career , kennedy allowed 928 hits and 495 bases on balls in 961 innings pitched , with 411 strikeouts .
in the world series , he compiled a 6.00 earned run average , allowing two earned runs in his three innings pitched .
monty kennedy worked for the richmond police department until his retirement .
he died in midlothian , virginia , at age 74 .
