Paul Penson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Major League Baseball pitcher
Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1931
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Kansas, United States
Date of Death: 03-May-2006
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Paul Penson
- Paul Eugene Penson (July 12, 1931 – May 3, 2006) was an American professional baseball player.
- A right-handed pitcher from Kansas City, Kansas, he worked in five games in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1954.
- He was listed as 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and 185 pounds (84 kg). Penson's professional career began in April 1954 after he had had a successful three-year skein as a pitcher while he served in the military.
- Penson won 50 games pitching for his base team, although sources disagree about the branch in which he served, reported as the United States Air Force and the U.S.
- Army.
- Penson made the Phillies out of training camp in 1954 as a member of the team's early-season, 28-man roster.
- His five games pitched included three starts, and he split two decisions.
- His lone MLB win came in his first start, on Sunday, May 16, 1954.
- in the second game of a doubleheader at Connie Mack Stadium.
- He went six innings against the St.
- Louis Cardinals, and allowed four hits, four bases on balls, and one earned run.
- But he was forced to leave the game leading 6–3 when the game was suspended because of Pennsylvania blue laws prohibiting sporting events on Sunday evenings.
- The game resumed on Monday, May 17, and Philadelphia went on to win, 8–4; veteran Murry Dickson nailed down the save with three innings of one-run relief. Penson would allow eight earned runs on 14 hits and 14 bases on balls in his 16 career MLB innings pitched; he struck out three.
- Plagued by a sore arm, he disappeared into minor league baseball after May 30, where he won only three of 19 decisions before leaving the game in 1956.
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