Claude osteen biography

Claude Wilson Osteen .
Claude Wilson Osteen, nicknamed "Gomer" because of his resemblance to television character Gomer Pyle, is an American former professional baseball left-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball.
After being released by the White Sox, Osteen began his career as a coach when he accepted a position with the Phillies' Double-A club in.

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Claude Osteen

Down two games to none to the Minnesota Twins in the 1965 World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers found themselves in a precarious situation after Don Drysdale lost Game One, 8-2, and Sandy Koufax, who refused to pitch the opening game because it fell on Yom Kippur, lost Game Two, 5-1. Left-hander Claude Osteen, scheduled to pitch Game Three, recounted the tension on the Dodgers’ charter flight back to Los Angles: “(My teammates) had confidence in me. I was sitting with my wife on the airplane. Players went up and down the aisle and tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘You’ll get ’em.’ By the time I got off the plane I was a nervous wreck.”[1] After giving up a leadoff double to Zolio Versalles (later chosen the American League’s MVP for 1965), Osteen settled down, gave up just four more hits, and pitched a shutout, winning 4-0. More than just a victory, Osteen’s gem changed the momentum of the Series which the Dodgers won in seven games with Koufax winning 2-0 in Game Seven on two days’ rest.

Claude Wilson Osteen, a high-school pitching phenom who made his major-l

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Claude Wilson Osteen, a successful major league pitcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers and other teams, was born August 9 in Caney Spring, Marshall County, Tennessee. His parents, Claude and Pauline Osteen, had one other child, Peggy.

Young Claude, known locally as “Mudcat” due to his penchant for playing in mudholes, was a pitcher on baseball teams throughout his school years. He attended Forrest School, Chapel Hill, Tennessee, from grades one through nine, and during the mid-1950s he played on a county team, the Woodmen Choppers. Osteen pitched and batted left-handed. He moved to Cincinnati when he was in the tenth grade and was star pitcher on a high school baseball team there.

He began his baseball career in 1957 in Nashville with the Southern League and went to the Cincinnati Redlegs as an amateur free agent the same year. Still a teenager, Osteen started in the major leagues on July 7, 1957. Subsequently, he pitched for Wenatchee (Northwest League) and Seattle (Pacific Coast League) in 1958, returning to Cincinnati (National League) 1959-61. He went to the Washington Senator

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Claude Osteen

Birthdate	8/9/1939
Death Date
Debut Year	1956
Year of Induction
Teams	Astros, Cardinals, Dodgers, Reds, Senators, White Sox
Position	Pitcher

From 1964-1973 three-time All Star Claude Osteen averaged more than 16 wins per season; his World Series ERA was 0.86 in 21 innings of work.

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Claude Osteen played with the Cincinnati Reds and the Washington Senators from 1957-1964

Claude Osteen enjoyed a long and productive career in professional baseball. A veteran of 18 big league seasons, the left-hander pitched from 1957-1975. To put that span in perspective, at 17 years old in 1957 the left-hander pitched on the same staff as Joe Nuxhall who debuted in 1944. In his fina

Claude Osteen enjoyed a long and productive career in professional baseball. A veteran of 18 big league seasons, the left-hander pitched from 1957-1975.

To put that span in perspective, at 17 years old in 1957 the left-hander pitched on the same staff as Joe Nuxhall who debuted in 1944. In his final year in t