Al Widmar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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baseball player
Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1925
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 15-Oct-2005
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Al Widmar
- Albert Joseph Widmar (March 20, 1925 – October 15, 2005) was an American starting pitcher and a pitching coach in Major League Baseball. Between 1945 and 1952, Widmar played for the Boston Red Sox (1947), St.
- Louis Browns (1948, 1950–51) and Chicago White Sox (1952).
- He batted and threw right-handed.
- As a coach, Widmar worked with the Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers and Toronto Blue Jays.
- He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. In a five-season career, Widmar posted a 13–30 record with 143 strikeouts and a 5.21 ERA in 388.1 innings pitched. Widmar played part of two Major League seasons as a reliever with the Boston Red Sox and St.
- Louis Browns.
- He debuted with the Red Sox in 1947, and was sent to St.
- Louis before the 1948 season in the same trade that brought Vern Stephens to Boston.
- After an unspectacular year with the Browns, he was demoted to Baltimore, St.
- Louis' Triple-A affiliate team. In 1949, Widmar won 22 games in the International League.
- A year later, he returned to the Browns as a starter.
- After going 11–24 in two seasons, he was sent along with Sherm Lollar to the Chicago White Sox for Dick Littlefield, Joe DeMaestri, Gus Niarhos and Jim Rivera.
- He finished the 1952 season with the Seattle Rainiers in the Pacific Coast League, and remained with the team through half of the 1955 season.
- At that point, Widmar donned a Tulsa Oilers uniform, and remained with the team as player/manager through 1958.Following his playing career, Widmar became a successful minor league manager for more than a decade.
- He also was the pitching coach for the Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Brewers, and later became a front office official for Milwaukee. In 1979, Widmar became the pitching coach of the Toronto Blue Jays; he kept the job for the next ten seasons.
- In 1985, he guided a rotation that featured Dave Stieb, Doyle Alexander, Jim Clancy and Jimmy Key as the Blue Jays won their first AL East Division title.
- He was promoted to special assistant to the vice president and general manager in 1991. Widmar died of colon cancer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at age 80.
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