William Craig Mooneyham (August 16, 1960) was an American professional baseball

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

for the Oakland Athletics of the

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(MLB). Mooneyham attended

Merced College Merced College is a public community college in Merced, California. History In 1961, the Merced High and Le Grand High School Districts petitioned the State Board of Education for permission to set an election to approve the establishment of a ...

. He was originally drafted in 1980 Major League Baseball draft in the 1st round (10th overall), and made his MLB debut on April 19, 1986 with Oakland. He played for only one season in the MLB, for which he was paid $60,000. In the minor leagues he played for the Salinas Spurs of the Class A California League in 1980 and the Holyoke Millers of the class AA Eastern League in 1981. He also played for Edmonton, Nashua, Modesto, Huntsville and Tacoma. He worked as a Physical Education teacher at Weaver Middle School in Merced,

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until 2022, when he retired.

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