Robert Burns Conley (February 1, 1934 – February 14, 2022) was an American professional baseball

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, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) briefly for the 1958

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. Listed at , , he batted and threw right-handed. A native of

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, Conley started two big league games in the closing weeks of the 1958 season. In his MLB debut, he allowed three earned runs in seven

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s of work against the Los Angeles Dodgers but left the game for a

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trailing, 3–1. (The Phils rallied to win for reliever

Turk Farrell Richard Joseph "Turk" Farrell (April 8, 1934 – June 10, 1977) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to , spending his entire 14-year MLB career in the National League (NL). He threw and ...

, by scoring three runs in the eighth inning.) But in his second start, the

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knocked Conley out of the game in the second inning by scoring four runs off him on three singles and a

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. All told, Conley's major league stat line includes seven runs and nine hits allowed, in two starts, yielding one walk with no strikeouts, in innings of work, for a 7.56 earned run average (ERA). He did not have a

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. Conley played eight years (1953–60) of Minor League Baseball (MiLB), all but one game spent in the Phillies' organization, and won 68 out of 121 decisions (.562). Conley died in Whiting, New Jersey on February 14, 2022, aged 88.

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