Jim Kaat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American baseball player and coach
Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1938
Place of Birth: Zeeland, Michigan, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Jim Kaat
- James Lee Kaat (born November 7, 1938), nicknamed "Kitty", is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Senators / Minnesota Twins (1959–1973), Chicago White Sox (1973–1975), Philadelphia Phillies (1976–1979), New York Yankees (1979–1980), and St.
- Louis Cardinals (1980–1983).
- His 25-year career spanned four decades. Kaat was an All-Star for three seasons and a Gold Glove winner for sixteen seasons.
- He was the American League (AL) leader in shutouts (5) in 1962, and the AL leader in wins (25) and complete games (19) in 1966.
- In addition to his 283 career wins, he has three 20-win seasons. After a brief stint as a pitching coach for the Cincinnati Reds under former player Pete Rose, he went on to become a sportscaster and for the next 22 years called games for the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins.
- Following a brief retirement in 2006, Jim Kaat was back in the broadcast booth calling Pool D for the 2009 World Baseball Classic in Puerto Rico, called games for NESN in 2009 (as a replacement for Jerry Remy), and currently calls games for the MLB Network as of the 2018 season.He has written a best-selling book, Still Pitching, and has started a sports management company, Southpaw Enterprises, Inc., solely representing pitchers. In 2014, Kaat appeared for the second time as a candidate on the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Golden Era Committee election ballot for possible Hall of Fame consideration for 2015 which required 12 votes.
- He missed getting inducted in 2015 by 2 votes.
- None of the candidates on the ballot were elected.
- The Committee meets and votes on ten selected candidates from the 1947 to 1972 era every three years.
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