Harry Byrd (baseball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1925
Place of Birth: Darlington, South Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 14-May-1985
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Harry Byrd (baseball)
- Harry Gladwin Byrd (February 3, 1925 – May 14, 1985) was an American Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Athletics, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, and Detroit Tigers.
- He was born in Darlington, South Carolina. Byrd pitched in six games with the Athletics in 1950, spent a season back in the minors, and was called back up to the big club in 1952.
- That year he enjoyed his best season, going 15–15 with a 3.31 earned run average (ERA), earned an All-Star berth, and was selected Rookie of the Year. In 1953 Byrd went 11–20, but he worked 237 innings.
- At the start of the 1954 season, he was part of a ten-player trade between the Athletics and Yankees.
- In New York he finished 9–7 with a 2.99 ERA.
- At the end of the season, he was sent to the Orioles as part of a 17-player mega-deal. Byrd went 3–2 with Baltimore in 1955, before being shipped off again to the White Sox.
- He finished with a combined 7–8 record with a 4.61 ERA.
- After pitching briefly with the Sox in 1956, he ended his career in 1957 with the Tigers. In a seven-year career, Byrd compiled a 46–54 record with 381 strikeouts and a 4.35 ERA in 827?2/3 innings. Byrd lived in the small logging community of Mont Clare, just outside his birthplace of Darlington, South Carolina.
- He died in Darlington at age of 60 after a bout with lung cancer.
- Darlington named a road after him (Harry Byrd Highway), which eventually becomes Bobo Newsom Highway, another major-league pitcher from the area (Hartsville).
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