Owen Franklin Scheetz (December 24, 1913 – September 28, 1994) was an American

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who appeared in six games with the Washington Senators of

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during the 1943 season."Owen Scheetz Statistics and History"
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, Scheetz played professionally for 13 seasons (1935–47) and won 137 games in minor league baseball. He was a

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who stood tall and weighed . All of Scheetz' six games pitched for Washington came in a

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role during the opening weeks of the wartime season. He worked in nine full innings pitched, allowed 16 hits, four bases on balls, and seven runs, all of them earned, for an

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of 7.00. He fanned five and earned no decisions. In the last wartime baseball season, 1945, Scheetz led the

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with 19 victories (losing eight decisions), and compiled an ERA of 1.95.

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