Clyde McCullough, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player and coach
Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1917
Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Date of Death: 18-Sep-1982
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Clyde McCullough
- Clyde Edward McCullough (March 4, 1917 – September 18, 1982) was an American catcher in Major League Baseball.
- After his playing career ended, he also managed in the minor leagues and was a major-league coach.
- Born in Nashville, Tennessee, McCullough batted and threw right-handed and in his playing days stood 5 ft 11 1/2 in (1.82 m) (182 cm) tall and weighed 180 pounds (82 kg). Originally a member of the New York Yankees farm system, he never played for them; instead, he was sold to the Chicago Cubs in September 1939 after toiling for the Yankees' Kansas City Blues farm club.
- He spent 11 seasons of his 15-year career for the Cubs, except for four years (1949–52) with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- He missed the 1944 and 1945 seasons to serve in the United States Navy during World War II, but returned to the Cubs in late 1945 to make one pinch-hitting appearance in the 1945 World Series.In his playing career, he hit 15 home runs, collected 785 hits, and batted .252 in 1,098 games.
- McCullough played in two All Star games for the National League, in 1948 and 1953.
- He also caught Sam Jones' no-hitter on May 12, 1955.McCullough makes a cameo appearance in William Bast's 1956 biography of James Dean.
- Bast relates that McCullough was the driver who gave Bast, Dean and another friend a ride in the summer of 1952 when they were hitchhiking to Dean's childhood farm home for an impromptu "vacation".
- In the anecdote, McCullough comes across as kind, caring and generous, expressing admiration for the contribution of actors to cultural life, and even offering some money to the clearly cash-strapped young trio (and is understanding when it is refused). As a coach, McCullough worked with the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins (1960–61), New York Mets (1963) and San Diego Padres (1982).
- He was a key manager and instructor in the Mets' farm system in the mid- to late-1960s when the club developed young pitchers such as Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, Jerry Koosman and Tug McGraw.
- McCullough was serving as the Padres' bullpen coach when he was found dead in his San Francisco hotel room on September 18 during a road trip.
- He was 65.
- He was interred in Rosewood Memorial Park Cemetery, Virginia Beach, Virginia. In 1983, McCullough was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
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