finalyear death_date death_place bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1948 18 february 2001 san rafael , california right sausalito , california 1943 may 4 16 -- 13 2.60 125 pitcher cleveland indians win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts may 2 3 december 1915 charley wensloff
 new york yankees butch wensloff right
charley wensloff

charles william `` butch '' wensloff -lrb- december 3 , 1915 -- february 18 , 2001 -rrb- was an american right-handed pitcher in major league baseball who played for three seasons in the american league with the new york yankees and cleveland indians .
in 41 career games , wensloff pitched 276 2/3 innings and posted a win-loss record of 16 -- 13 and a 2.60 earned run average -lrb- era -rrb- .
wensloff began his career in the arizona-texas league before joining the new york yankees farm system .
he played on various minor league teams for the next six seasons and made his debut during the 1943 new york yankees season .
he pitched in 29 games , and after the season ended , he served in the united states army during world war ii .
wensloff rejoined the yankees in 1947 , pitching in 11 regular season games and in the 1947 world series .
after the season ended , he was sent to the cleveland indians , and pitched in one game for the team before retiring at the end of the season .
