William Charles Oster (January 2, 1933 – June 6, 2020) was an American

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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 ...

. He played for the

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during the 1954 season. Oster was signed by the Athletics as an amateur free agent on August 20, 1954, and made his debut 3 days later. His only decision came a little over a month later in his final MLB game when the Athletics were defeated by the

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, 10–2. Born in

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, Oster died on June 6, 2020, in

Centerport, New York Centerport is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the notably affluent North Shore of Long Island, historically known as the Gold Coast. Formerly known as Little Cow Harbor in about 1700, as C ...

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