Earl Eugene Huckleberry (May 23, 1910 – February 25, 1999) was a

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 ...

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. He played for the

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in 1935. Huckleberry's lone appearance in professional baseball came on September 13, 1935, in a game in which he started on the mound against the

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. After giving up a run in his first inning as a big leaguer, Huckleberry's team scored 8 runs for him in the bottom of the first, and he'd earn a win in his lone MLB appearance, a game in which his team won 19–7."Earl Huckleberry Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-12-11. Unusually, Huckleberry never played a game in the minors either before or after his one game with the Athletics.

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