Gerry Staley
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Gerald Lee Staley (August 21, 1920 – January 2, 2008) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1942 Minor League draft. He pitched regularly from 1947 on, then was traded to Cincinnati for the 1955 season. In 1955 and 1956, he pitched for three teams, including the Yankees, before ending up with the Chicago White Sox, whom he helped to the Template:Mlby American League pennant as a reliever.
Staley was named to the Template:Mlby and Template:Mlby National League All-Star teams and the Template:Mlby American League All-Star team. He finished 28th in voting for the AL's 1959 Most Valuable Player Award after leading the league in games with 67 and games finished with 37, and had an 8–5 record, 14 saves in <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />116+1⁄3 innings, 54 strikeouts, and a 2.24 earned run average.
He finished 23rd in voting for the 1960 Most Valuable Player Award for having a 13–8 record in 64 games and <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />115+1⁄3 innings, with 10 saves, 14 blown saves, 52 strikeouts and a 2.42 earned run average. The 14 blown saves was a single-season record, matched by only four other pitchers.
He led the National League in hits allowed per 9 innings pitched (8.09) in 1949, and led the National League in hit batsmen in Template:Mlby (7) and Template:Mlby (17).
In 15 years, he had a 134–111 record in 640 games, 186 games started, 58 complete games, 9 shutouts, 246 games finished, 61 saves, <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1,981+2⁄3 innings, 2,070 hits allowed, 946 runs allowed (814 earned), 187 home runs allowed, 529 walks (37 intentional), 727 strikeouts, 63 hit batsmen, 27 wild pitches, 8,398 batters faced, 2 balks and a 3.70 earned run average.
He died at his home in Vancouver, Washington, of natural causes at the age of 87.[1][2][3]
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