John Graydon "Jack" Hardy (born October 8, 1959) is an American former 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 te ...

. He was a right-handed

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for one season (1989) with the

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of the

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(MLB). For his career, he recorded no decisions, with a 6.57

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 four strikeouts in 12⅓ innings pitched.

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1959 births Living people American expatriate baseball players in Canada Baseball players from St. Petersburg, Florida Birmingham Barons players Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players Chicago White Sox players Edmonton Trappers players Glens Falls White Sox players Gulf Coast White Sox players Hawaii Islanders players Major League Baseball pitchers Oklahoma City 89ers players St. Thomas Bobcats baseball players Vancouver Canadians players Plantation High School alumni {{US-baseball-pitcher-1950s-stub