finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1962 right max meadows , virginia 1961 september 19 9-16 3.94 122 pitcher kansas city athletics record era strikeouts april 30 25 may 1932 jim archer
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jim archer

james william archer -lrb- born may 25 , 1932 in max meadows , virginia -rrb- is a former major league baseball pitcher who played for two seasons with the kansas city athletics .
he threw left-handed and batted right .
archer was eighteen years old when he was signed as an amateur free agent in 1951 by the new york yankees .
he did not make the major leagues till 1961 .
in between archer spent seven years in the minor league farm systems of the baltimore orioles .
before the 1961 season began , archer was part of an eight-player trade that brought him to kansas city .
archer made his first major league appearance on april 30 .
he soon became a starting pitcher for kansas city and finished the 1961 season with a record of 9 -- 15 with a 3.20 earned run average .
archer pulled a leg muscle in spring training the next year .
favoring the leg , he soon developed tendinitis in his throwing arm .
he appeared in just 18 games for kansas city in 1962 .
by 1964 archer was out of professional baseball .
after his playing days were over , archer served as a city commissioner in tarpon springs , florida .
