Dick Stigman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1936
Place of Birth: Nimrod, Minnesota, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Dick Stigman
- Richard Lewis Stigman (born January 24, 1936) is an American former professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher who appeared in seven Major League seasons (1960 to 1966) for the Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox.
- Born in Nimrod, Minnesota, he graduated from Sebeka High School.
- Stigman was listed as 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and weighed 200 pounds (91 kg). Stigma's professional career lasted 14 seasons (1954–67).
- In his rookie campaign, 1960 with Cleveland, he had posted a 4–4 win–loss record with three complete games and a 3.32 earned run average through June 30.
- Surprisingly, he was selected to the American League All-Star team by manager Al López, but he failed to appear in either of that summer's All-Star games (from 1959–62, two such games were played each year).
- He spent two full seasons with the Indians, and then—on the brink of the 1962 season—he was traded to his hometown Twins with first baseman Vic Power for right-handed pitcher Pedro Ramos. That set the stage for Stigman's two most successful MLB campaigns.
- In 1962, he helped pitch the Twins to a shocking second-place finish in the American League.
- He worked in 40 games, alternating between starting and relief, and went 12–5 (3.66) with six complete games in 15 starts and three saves out of the bullpen.
- Then, in 1963, Stigman took a regular turn in the Minnesota rotation, making 33 starts and working in 241 innings pitched.
- Although he had only a .500 record (15–15), he threw 15 complete games and three shutouts, posting an ERA of 3.25.
- All were career bests as the Twins finished third in the league. But 1964 was a setback for both Stigman and the Twins.
- He won only six of 21 decisions and his ERA rose to 4.03; the Twins, meanwhile, fell into a tie for sixth place in the AL.
- It cost Stigman his place in the 1965 Twins' starting rotation, as he reverted to a swing-man role.
- He went 4–2 (4.37) in 33 games pitched, with eight starts and four saves out of the bullpen.
- However, he contributed to the Twins' 1965 American League pennant, its first title since the franchise moved to Minneapolis–Saint Paul in 1961.
- Stigman did not appear in the 1965 World Series, won by the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games. The following spring, he was traded to the second-division Boston Red Sox, where he closed out his major league career.
- One of his two victories came on May 31, a 1–0 complete game shutout over the Chicago White Sox in which Stigman scattered seven hits.
- Boston traded Stigman to the Cincinnati Reds during the off-season, and he pitched one more season of Triple-A before retiring. In his 235 big-league games pitched, including 119 starts, Stigman posted a 46–54 record.
- In 922?2/3 innings pitched, he surrendered 819 hits and 406 bases on balls; he fanned 755.
- He had 30 complete games, five shutouts and 16 career saves. In retirement, he became a businessman in Minneapolis–Saint Paul.
- In his honor, a park in his home town of Nimrod was named Stigman's Mound.
- The Nimrod Gnats, amateur baseball team in Nimrod, named their baseball field after him.
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