Mike Cuellar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mike Cuellar

Cuban baseball player

Date of Birth: 08-May-1937

Place of Birth: Santa Clara, Villa Clara Province, Cuba

Date of Death: 02-Apr-2010

Profession: baseball player

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Miguel Ángel Cuellar Santana (May 8, 1937 – April 2, 2010) [KWAY-ar] was a Cuban professional baseball player.
He played for fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball as a pitcher in 1959 and from 1964 through 1977, most notably as a member of the Baltimore Orioles dynasty that won three consecutive American League pennants from 1969 to 1971 and, won the World Series in 1970.
He also played for the Cincinnati Reds, St.
Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros and California Angels. Cuellar shared the American League Cy Young Award in 1969 and won 20-or-more games in a season four times from 1969 to 1974.
He was a part of the last starting rotation to feature four pitchers with at least twenty victories each in one season.
Cuellar, nicknamed Crazy Horse while with the Orioles, ranks among Baltimore's top five career leaders in wins (143), strikeouts (1,011), shutouts (30) and innings pitched (2,028), and trails only Dave McNally among left-handers in wins and shutouts.