John Romonosky (July 7, 1929 – October 2, 2011) was an American

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, he played parts of three seasons in

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, appearing in 32

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for the 1953

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and the 1958–59 Washington Senators. His minor league baseball career spanned 13 seasons between 1949 and 1961. After his first recall from the minor leagues, Romonosky started two games for the Cardinals at the end of the 1953 campaign, earning no decisions. In fact, in his Major League debut against the

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, the second game of a Sunday doubleheader at

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, the game ended in a 3–3

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after eight

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of play. Romonosky allowed three

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and seven

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in six innings, with two

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and three

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s. Sent back to the minors by St. Louis for the 1954 season, Romonosky didn't return to the majors until July 1958 as a member of the Senators. He started five games during that month, but won only one game (losing the other four) and he worked out of the bullpen for the remainder of the 1958 campaign, appearing in 18 total MLB games. He began the next season with Washington, and worked in 12 more contests, two as a starter. He posted a career-best 3.29

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that season, but did not pitch in a big-league game after July 27 and spent part of the season with the Double-A

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. However, in his final Major League game in September 1959, he pinch-ran for Senators' slugger

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in the eighth inning and scored the winning

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in a 5–4 win over the

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.1959-9-11 box score from Retrosheet
/ref> All told, Romonosky yielded 97 hits and 51

in 101⅓ major league innings, with 63 strikeouts.

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