Mel Deutsch
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Melvin Elliott Deutsch (July 26, 1915 – November 18, 2001) was an American professional baseball player. He was a relief pitcher in the Major Leagues who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1946 season. Listed at Script error: No such module "convert".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., 215 lb., Deutsch batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Caldwell, Texas.
Deutsch was signed by the Boston Red Sox as a free agent out of the University of Texas at Austin. His professional career lasted from 1941 to 1949 (1945 and 1948 seasons excluded). He served in the United States Army during World War II,[1] missing the 1945 season.
He made three appearances out of the Red Sox bullpen during the early weeks of Boston's 1946 pennant-winning season, posting a 5.68 ERA with two strikeouts and three walks in <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />6+1⁄3 innings of work. He allowed seven hits and did not have a decision or a save.
Mel was of German, Czech, and Irish descent. His father, born in Berlin; his mother in Moravia. Languages spoken at home included German and Bohemian.[2] Deutsch died in Austin, Texas at age 86.
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- Career statistics from Script error: No such module "String".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Retrosheet
- Nowlin, Bill, Mel Deutsch at the SABR Biography Project
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- 1915 births
- 2001 deaths
- Baseball players from Texas
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- Louisville Colonels (minor league) players
- Major League Baseball pitchers
- Texas Longhorns baseball players
- Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players
- Tulsa Oilers (baseball) players
- People from Caldwell, Texas
- United States Army personnel of World War II
- American people of German descent
- American people of Czech descent
- American people of Moravian-German descent
- American people of Irish descent
- Bryan Bombers players
- 20th-century American sportsmen