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1971 Atlanta Braves Season
The 1971 Atlanta Braves season was the sixth season in Atlanta along with the 101st season as a franchise overall. Offseason * November 30, 1970: Hal Breeden was traded by the Braves to the Chicago Cubs for Hoyt Wilhelm.Hoyt Wilhelm at ''Baseball Reference'' * December 2, 1970: Bob Tillman was traded by the Braves to the Milwaukee Brewers for Hank Allen, John Ryan (minors) and Paul Click (minors).Hank Allen at ''Baseball Reference'' * December 22, 1970: Don Cardwell was released by the Braves. Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Notable transactions * April 1971: Hank Alle ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National League West
The National League West is one of Major League Baseball's six divisions. This division was formed for the 1969 season when the National League expanded to 12 teams by adding the San Diego Padres and the Montreal Expos. For purpose of keeping a regular-season of 162 games, half of the teams were put into the new National League East, East Division and half into the new West Division. Within each division, the teams played 18 games each against their five division mates (90 games), and also 12 games against the teams in the opposite division (72 games), totaling 162 games. Geography Despite the geography, the owners of the Chicago Cubs insisted that their team be placed into the East Division along with the teams in New York City, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Also, the owners of the St. Louis Cardinals wanted that team to be in the same division with their natural rivals of the Cubs. The league could have insisted on a purely geographical alignment like the American League did. But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Tiant
Luis Clemente Tiant Vega () (born November 23, 1940) is a Cuban former Major League Baseball (MLB) right-handed starting pitcher. He pitched in MLB for 19 years, primarily for the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox. Tiant compiled a 229–172 record with 2416 strikeouts, a 3.30 earned run average (ERA), 187 complete games, and 49 shutouts in innings. He was an All-Star for three seasons and 20-game winner for four seasons. He was the American League (AL) ERA leader in 1968 and 1972. He also was the AL leader in strikeouts per nine innings pitched in 1967 and the AL leader in shutouts in 1966, 1968, and 1974. He was inducted to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 1997, the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame in 2002, the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009, and the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2012. Tiant was considered for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame via voting of the Baseball Writers' Association of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Niekro
Philip Henry Niekro ( ; April 1, 1939 – December 26, 2020), nicknamed "Knucksie", was an American baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball, 20 of them with the Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves. Niekro's 318 career victories are the most by a knuckleballer and rank 16th on List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders, MLB's all-time wins list. He won the National League Gold Glove Award five times, was selected to five Major League Baseball All-Star Game, All-Star teams, and led the league in victories twice and earned run average once. He was a key contributor to the Braves winning their only two division titles before 1991. Niekro was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1997. Niekro and his younger brother Joe Niekro, Joe amassed 539 wins between them, the most combined wins by brothers in baseball history. Phil's 121 career victories after the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Neibauer
Gary Wayne Neibauer (born October 29, 1944) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies from –. Appearing primarily as a relief pitcher, Neibauer went 4–8 during his Major League career with a 4.78 earned run average (ERA). Born and raised in Billings, Montana, Neibauer eventually relocated to Nebraska, along with his family. He received scholarship offers to play college football at Stanford, Wyoming, Nebraska and other Big Eight schools. At the University of Nebraska, he earned a varsity letter in four sports. Niebauer eventually gave up football to focus on the Cornhuskers' baseball and basketball teams. Neibauer was drafted in both the regular and secondary phases of the 1966 Major League Baseball Draft by the Cleveland Indians and Braves, respectively, and he signed with Atlanta after failing to sign a contract with Cleveland. In 1966 and 1967, he pitched for the Austin Braves of the Texas League, be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Nash (baseball)
James Edwin Nash (born February 9, 1945), commonly known as Jim Nash, is a retired American professional baseball pitcher. He debuted on July 3, 1966 against the Detroit Tigers after then Kansas City Athletics signed him as a free agent. During his rookie season in 1966 he went 12–1 with a 2.06 earned run average in 127 innings pitched as part of the kiddie corps of pitchers featured in Kansas City. He also received the only two votes not won by Tommie Agee for the American League Rookie of the Year Award. Nash would appear on the cover of the March 13, 1967 Sports Illustrated and was featured in a story along with up and coming pitchers Catfish Hunter and Blue Moon OdomNash however failed to live up to the hype from his first two seasons, battling shoulder soreness, and ended with a career record of 68 wins and 64 losses with a lifetime ERA of 3.58, allowing 1,050 hits and 441 earned runs in 1,107.1 innings pitched. He went on to play 4 seasons for the Athletics and 3 seasons for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike McQueen (baseball)
Michael Robert McQueen (August 30, 1950 – October 9, 2017) was a professional baseball pitcher. He pitched all or part of five seasons in Major League Baseball between 1969 and 1974 for the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds. Career Braves McQueen was drafted out of Spring Branch High School by the Braves in the fourth round of the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft. He began his professional career with the Magic Valley Cowboys of the Pioneer League, but was soon promoted to the Double-A Shreveport Braves. McQueen missed most of the 1969 season, appearing in just four games for Shreveport. Despite this, he was chosen to start on October 2, the last game of the regular season, for the major league Braves. He pitched just three innings, giving up one run on two hits, walking three batters and striking out three. At age 19, he was the youngest player to appear in the major leagues that year. The next season, McQueen started the year with the Triple-A Richmond Braves. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Kelley (baseball)
Thomas Henry Kelley (January 5, 1944 – September 25, 2015) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves in parts of seven seasons spanning 1964–1973. Listed at 6' 0" , 185 lb. , Kelley batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Manchester, Connecticut. Playing career Kelley was signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1963. He posted a 9–9 record and a 3.17 earned run average with Double-A Charleston Indians the following year, earning a late-season callup to the majors, where he made six relief appearances. In 1965, Kelley compiled an outstanding 16–3 record with a 2.38 ERA in 26 starts for the Triple-A Portland Beavers of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League, including a no-hitter against the Spokane Indians on May 29. He then returned to the parent Indians and went 2–1 with a 2.40 ERA in four late-season starts appearances. Kelley spent the entire 1966 season with Cleveland, but c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Jarvis (baseball)
Robert Patrick Jarvis (born March 18, 1941) is an American former professional baseball player. He was a Major League Baseball (MLB) starting pitcher who played eight seasons for the Atlanta Braves and the Montreal Expos from to in the National League. Career Jarvis was born in Carlyle, Illinois and attended Carlyle High School. He pitched collegiately at Murray State University. Originally signed by the Chicago Cubs, he was traded to the Braves in 1963 and was voted that team's top rookie for 1966. Over a four-season span from 1967–70, Jarvis was one of the National League's top starting pitchers, winning 60 games. He was Atlanta's starting pitcher in Game 3 of the 1969 National League Championship Series, played at Shea Stadium in New York City. A first-inning Hank Aaron home run staked Jarvis to a 2-0 lead, but he ended up the losing pitcher in a 7-4 defeat to the New York Mets. He surrendered Ernie Banks' 500th career MLB home run in the second inning of the Braves' 11-i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom House
Thomas Ross House (born April 29, 1947) is a former left-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball, as well as an author and a pitching coach. Baseball career Player House pitched at Nogales High School (La Puente, California) and the University of Southern California, before the Atlanta Braves selected him with the 48th overall pick of the 1967 draft's secondary phase, as part of the draft's third round. He had passed up an earlier chance to turn pro two years before, when the Chicago Cubs used the 201st overall pick to take him in the 11th round of the June draft's main phase. Advancing quickly through the Braves' system, House made his major league debut on June 23, 1971, pitching one inning in relief of Pat Jarvis in the seventh inning of a 6–3 loss to the Montreal Expos. Relying mainly on a curveball and a screwball, House was an important part of the Braves' bullpen in the mid-1970s. His best season was 1974, when he pitched 102⅔ innings, all in relief, with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Herbel
Ronald Samuel Herbel (January 16, 1938 – January 20, 2000) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in 331 games, all but 79 in relief, for the San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, New York Mets and Atlanta Braves. A right-hander born in Denver, he was listed as tall and . Herbel's .029 career batting average is the lowest batting average in Major League history for a player with a minimum of 100 at-bats. Herbel set another record for batting futility, he accumulated the fewest hits of any pitcher or position player in major league history reaching his first 100 at-bats with one. He got his second hit on June 9, 1966 at the Houston Astrodome, a fifth-inning single RBI single off of Larry Dierker. He was 1-for-108 (.009) in the majors up to that point and 0-for-12 beginning the 1966 season. It was his only safety of the season, going 1-for-38 (.026) overall. After his second hit, he went 4-for-97 (.041) thereafter, completing his major league career in 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Barber
Stephen David Barber (February 22, 1938 – February 4, 2007) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) left-handed pitcher. He pitched for the Baltimore Orioles and six other teams between 1960–74. Barber compiled 121 wins, 1,309 strikeouts, and had a 3.36 career earned run average. Barber spent his first eight years with the Orioles where he compiled an outstanding 95–75 record. Arm injuries hampered the rest of his career which saw him win only 26 and lose 31 for the rest of his 15-year career. While with the Orioles, Barber was an All-Star for two seasons. From 1961 to 1967 Barber bucked baseball superstition by wearing number 13. He also wore this number with the Seattle Pilots. Early years Barber was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, and graduated in 1956 from Montgomery Blair High School located in Silver Spring in Montgomery County, Maryland. Major League career Barber signed with the Orioles in 1957. As a rookie in , he had a record of 10–7 and an earne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Beard (baseball)
Michael Richard Beard (born July 21, 1950 - November 6, 2022) was an American former professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher who appeared in 74 games — 72 in relief — in the Major Leagues between and for the Atlanta Braves. Beard was drafted by the Braves in the first round (18th overall) of the secondary phase of the 1971 Major League Baseball Draft after pitching for the University of Texas at Austin. He stood tall and weighed . Beard's finest MLB season came in . Recalled from the Triple-A Richmond Braves in May, Beard appeared in 34 games and compiled a perfect 4–0 win–loss record as a relief pitcher. He also made his only two Major League starts that September against the San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants. He allowed seven hits and five earned runs in an even nine innings pitched as a starter, but did not earn a decision. His professional career ended after the 1977 season, his seventh in the game. During his Major League career, he allow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
