Dick Donovan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1927
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 06-Jan-1997
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Dick Donovan
- Richard Edward Donovan (December 27, 1927 – January 6, 1997) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Boston Braves (1950–1952), Detroit Tigers (1954), Chicago White Sox (1955–1960), Washington Senators (1961) and Cleveland Indians (1962–1965).
- A Boston native, he graduated from North Quincy High School and served in the United States Navy during and after World War II. Donovan batted left-handed and threw right-handed, stood 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg).
- During a 15-year major league career, he compiled 122 wins, 880 strikeouts, and a 3.67 earned run average, with 101 complete games, 25 shutouts and five saves.
- In 2,017?1/3 career innings pitched, he allowed 1,988 hits and 495 bases on balls. Donovan, as a member of the White Sox, led the 1957 American League in winning percentage, posting a 16–6 (.727) won-lost record.
- He pitched in the 1959 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- He lost his only World Series start in Game 3, but saved Game 5 for the White Sox, and pitched in relief in Game 6, allowing two hits, three earned runs, walked one, and struck out none.
- In his only postseason appearance, he compiled 0 wins, 1 loss, 1 save, 5 strikeouts, and a 5.40 earned run average.
- At the plate in the Series, he went 1-3 (.333 batting average). His 1962 season was his career-best, when he won 20 games in 34 games started with 16 complete games and five shutouts in 250?1/3 innings pitched, all of them new career-highs, for Cleveland.
- The previous season, 1961, had seen Donovan lead the American League in earned run average with a stellar 2.40 mark in 168?2/3 innings for the first-year expansion edition of the Senators. At the plate in his 15-year major league career, Donovan posted a .163 batting average (113-for-694) with 67 runs, 15 home runs, 64 RBI and drawing 64 bases on balls.
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