Harvey Branch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1939
Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Harvey Branch
- Harvey Alfred Branch (born February 8, 1939) is an American former professional baseball player.
- He was a left-handed pitcher who had a seven-year career in minor league baseball, but whose Major League tenure consisted of a single game in the uniform of the St.
- Louis Cardinals on September 18, 1962. Branch attended Alabama State University, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 170 pounds (77 kg).
- He originally signed with the Chicago Cubs in 1958 and spent five years in their minor league system.
- In 1962, after Branch enjoyed a second consecutive successful season with the Double-A San Antonio Missions — recording 216 strikeouts in 237 innings pitched — the Cubs traded him to the Cardinals on September 1 for right-handed pitcher Paul Toth. Seventeen days later, Branch made his MLB appearance as the Cardinals' starting pitcher — against Toth and the Cubs at Wrigley Field.
- He yielded a solo home run to Ron Santo in the second inning, walked in a run in the third, and gave up a third run on a triple and a ground ball out in the fifth.
- He left the game for a pinch hitter, Red Schoendienst, in the top of the sixth inning with St.
- Louis trailing, 3–1.
- Branch was the losing pitcher in an eventual 4–3 Redbird defeat.
- (Toth got the victory.) All told, Branch yielded five hits and three earned runs in his five innings of work, with five walks and two strikeouts.
- Those would also stand as his career MLB totals. Branch made the Cardinals' 40-man spring training roster in 1963 but was sent to the Triple-A Atlanta Crackers for the full season.
- After spending that year and 1964 in the minor leagues, Branch left the game.
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