Joseph Walton Haynes (September 21, 1917 – January 6, 1967) was an American

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player, coach and front office executive. A right-handed

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, he logged 14 seasons in

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as a member of the Washington Senators (1939–40; 1949–52) and

Chicago White Sox The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The White Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is owned by Jerry Reinsdorf, and ...

(1941–48). He married Thelma Mae Robertson Griffith, niece of Washington owner

Clark Griffith Clark Calvin Griffith (November 20, 1869 – October 27, 1955), nicknamed "The Old Fox", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, manager and team owner. He began his MLB playing career with the St. Louis Browns (1891), Boston Reds ...

, in October 1941, ten months after he had been traded to Chicago by his fiancée's uncle.

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Born in

Lincolnton, Georgia The city of Lincolnton is the county seat of Lincoln County, Georgia, United States. The population was 1,480 at the 2020 census. It contains numerous houses and historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Both the city ...

, Haynes began his pro career in 1937. He stood tall and weighed . In 379 games pitched, including 147

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, Haynes compiled a 76–82 win-loss record, 53 complete games, five

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s, 159 games finished and 21 saves in 1,581 innings pitched. He allowed 1,672

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s, 823 runs, 704

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s, 95

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s and 620 walks, with 475 strikeouts, 26 hit batsmen, 35

wild pitch In baseball, a wild pitch (WP) is charged against a pitcher when his pitch is too high, too short, or too wide of home plate for the catcher to control with ordinary effort, thereby allowing a baserunner, or the batter (on an uncaught third str ...

es, 6,890 batters faced, four

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s and a 4.01 ERA. Haynes was an above average hitting pitcher, posting a career .213

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(111-for-521) with 48 runs, 1

and 39 RBI. Defensively, he was better than average, recording a .966 fielding percentage which was 9 points higher than the league average at his position. Of Haynes' 379 appearances, 218 came with the White Sox, where he won 55 of 98 decisions (.561) and posted a solid 3.14 ERA. He was named to the

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All-Star team (although he did not appear in it) and led the American League in games pitched (40) and games finished (35) in and in

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 ...

(2.42) in . He was reacquired by Washington after the 1948 season, but was ineffective, going only 10–21 with a 5.42 ERA in 112 games in his second stint with the Senators. As a member of the Griffith family whose wife inherited 26 percent of the franchise's stock in 1955, Haynes remained in the Washington organization after his playing career ended. He served as the Senators' pitching coach from 1953–55, coached in their farm system, then moved into the front office as executive vice president, working with his brother-in-law, club president Calvin Griffith, in Washington and after the team moved to

Minneapolis Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ...

–

St. Paul Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...

as the Minnesota Twins in 1961. Haynes died in

Hopkins, Minnesota Hopkins is a small suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, located west of Minneapolis. Hopkins was the headquarters of Minneapolis-Moline, which was a large manufacturer of tractors and agricultural equipment in the United ...

, of a

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suffered while shoveling snow at the age of 49.

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