Anthony "Keith" Weber (April 27, 1942 – February 18, 2011) was a

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and

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for the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...

, most notable for holding the

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record for lowest

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(ERA), at 0.56 for his college career.

Biography

Weber played college football and

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for the

Missouri Tigers The Missouri Tigers intercollegiate athletics programs represent the University of Missouri, located in Columbia. The name comes from a band of armed Union Home Guards called the Fighting Tigers of Columbia who, in 1864, protected Columbia fro ...

. As a junior, Weber helped lead Missouri to the 1963 College World Series, where they were eliminated by eventual champion

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. In 1964, Weber earned First-team All-American honors while anchoring a Missouri pitching staff that still holds the NCAA record for lowest single-season team ERA, surrendering just 19 earned runs in 264 innings for an ERA of 0.65. Weber and Missouri returned to the

1964 College World Series The 1964 NCAA University Division baseball tournament was played at the end of the 1964 NCAA University Division baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the Co ...

, falling to

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in the championship game. In his two trips to the College World Series, Weber pitched innings while giving up zero earned runs, which remains the most innings pitched by anyone in the College World Series without giving up an earned run. Upon his graduation from Missouri in 1964, Weber played collegiate summer baseball for the

Cotuit Kettleers The Cotuit Kettleers are a collegiate summer baseball team based in the village of Cotuit, Massachusetts, which is in the southwest corner of the town of Barnstable. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) and plays in the lea ...

of the Cape Cod Baseball League and was named a league all-star. He represented the United States in baseball at the 1964 Summer Olympics as a demonstration sport, one of seven pitchers on the team. Weber then played a single season of minor league baseball in 1965 with the

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, before returning to Missouri to attend law school while working as an assistant football coach under

Dan Devine Daniel John Devine (December 23, 1924 – May 9, 2002) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Arizona State University from 1955 to 1957, the University of Missouri from 1958 to 1970, and the Universi ...

. After a career in real estate, Weber died of kidney cancer on February 18, 2011.

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