Red Adams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player and coach
Date of Birth: 07-Oct-1921
Place of Birth: Parlier, California, United States
Date of Death: 18-Jan-2017
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Red Adams
- Charles Dwight "Red" Adams (October 7, 1921 – January 18, 2017) was an American professional baseball pitcher, scout and pitching coach.
- The native of Parlier, California, pitched only briefly in Major League Baseball, but had a lengthy career as a scout and coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- A right-hander in his playing days, he stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg).
- Adams won 193 games in the minor leagues from 1939–42 and in 1944–58, including a 21-victory season for the 1945 Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League.
- His Major League pitching tenure, however, consisted of only 12 innings over eight games for the Chicago Cubs in 1946.
- All of his appearances came in relief.
- His one decision came on Memorial Day, when he allowed a game-winning home run to Ray Mueller of the Cincinnati Reds, which capped a six-run, ninth-inning rally and enabled Cincinnati to defeat Chicago, 7–6, at Wrigley Field, in the second game of the holiday doubleheader.
- Adams allowed 11 earned runs, 18 hits and seven bases on balls in 12 total innings pitched during his MLB career, with eight strikeouts. After his playing career, he was a scout for the Dodgers from 1959–68.
- He then worked as the Dodgers' MLB pitching coach from 1969–80, serving on three National League pennant-winning teams (1974; 1977–78) under managers Walter Alston and Tommy Lasorda, and helping develop many of the Dodgers' pitchers.
- Said 324-game-winning pitcher Don Sutton upon his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in July 1998: "No person ever meant more to my career than Red Adams.
- Without him, I would not be standing in Cooperstown today." In 1979, Adams was inducted into the Fresno County Athletic Hall of Fame.
- Adams died on January 18, 2017, at the age of 95.
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