Phil Clark (pitcher), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player (1932-2018)
Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1932
Place of Birth: Albany, Georgia, United States
Date of Death: 14-Sep-2018
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Phil Clark (pitcher)
- Philip James Clark III (October 3, 1931 – September 14, 2018) was an American professional baseball player.
- The right-handed pitcher stood 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and weighed 210 pounds (95 kg) during his active career (1951; 1953–61).
- Born in Albany, Georgia, he attended Georgia Southern University.
- He was a United States Navy veteran of the Korean War.Clark appeared in 14 games (all in relief) over two Major League seasons with the 1958–59 St.
- Louis Cardinals, dropping his only two decisions, issuing 11 bases on balls and striking out six in 14? innings.
- He earned one save.
- However, he was a memorable and sympathetic figure in The Long Season, the breakthrough memoir of the 1959 baseball season written by his teammate Jim Brosnan.
- Clark and his family were neighbors of the Brosnan family during spring training in St.
- Petersburg, Florida, and the two pitchers became friends.
- While Brosnan was an established Major League pitcher, Clark was a fringe player constantly worried about being sent back to the minor leagues.
- As it turned out, both players were cast off by the Cardinals that season: Clark was sent to Triple-A Omaha at the May cutdown and later traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers; Brosnan was traded to the Cincinnati Reds in early June. Clark was a successful minor league pitcher, going 81–58 over his career and posting 18 and 16-victory seasons, the latter in the Double-A Texas League.
- After leaving baseball, he was a teacher, coach and assistant school principal in his native Albany, retiring in 1988.
- Clark died in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 86.
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