Jerry Ujdur, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1957
Place of Birth: Hermantown, Minnesota, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Jerry Ujdur
- Gerald Raymond Ujdur (born March 5, 1957) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.
- Ujdur pitched in all or part of five seasons from 1980 through 1984. Ujdur played college baseball for the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
- He was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the fourth round of the 1978 Major League Baseball Draft, and began his career with the Lakeland Tigers that year, finishing with a 5-2 win-loss record and a 2.39 earned run average (ERA).
- After pitching in 19 games for the Montgomery Rebels in 1979, he started the 1980 season with the Evansville Triplets.
- He went 9-4 with a 3.37 ERA before he was promoted to the main Tigers roster.Ujdur made his debut on August 17, 1980, and finished the season with a win and a 7,59 ERA in nine games.
- In 1981, he pitched in four games for the Tigers, but spent most of the year with Evansville, where he had a 7-10 record and a 4.09 ERA in 25 starts.
- Ujdur spent 1982 as a starter for the Tigers for most of the season.
- That year, he had a 10-10 record and a 3.69 ERA and finished second in the American League in hits per nine innings with 7.58.
- He was also named Tigers' rookie pitcher of the year.
- After a couple of poor starts to begin 1983, the Tigers placed him back in the minors.
- The following year after spring training, the Tigers released him, and he was picked up by the Indians; he was nearly not able to join a team due to how late in spring the Tigers cut him.He began the 1984 season with the Maine Guides and spent most of the season there, going 14-8 with a 3.69 ERA, which led to the Indians calling him up in September.
- With the Indians, he had a 1-2 record and a 6.91 ERA in four games.
- He was released by the Indians in March 1985, and retired from the game afterwards.
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