Andrew Lapihuska (November 1, 1922 – February 17, 1996) was a professional

baseball player Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

. He was a right-handed

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

over parts of two seasons (1942–43) with the

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. For his career, he compiled an 0–2 record, with a 7.04

earned run average In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the average of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game). It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number ...

, and 8

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s in 23 innings pitched. Lapihuska was born in the Delmont section of Maurice River Township, New Jersey, and died in Millville, New Jersey, at the age of 73.

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