Star baseball player at UCLA

Born: Donald Scott Drysdale
Don Drysdale was born July 23, 1936, Van Nuys, California.
He died July 3, 1993 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.  He died in his hotel room of a heart attack hours before he was to work the television/radio color commentary for the Los Angeles Dodgers-Montreal Expos game.

Pitcher for the National League's Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, 1956-1969. Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1984.

Took part in a publicized salary holdout in the spring of 1966 along with teammate Sandy Koufax.

Pitched 58 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in 1968, a record which stood until Orel Hershiser topped it 20 years later.

Pitched in eight All-Star games.

Still holds the National League record for most hit batsmen (154).

Finished 5th in voting for National League MVP in 1962 and 1965.

Pitched in eight All-Star games (1959, 1961-65 and 1967-68).

Won Cy Young Award as Major League Baseball's top pitcher in 1962 for leading National League in wins (25), innings pitched (314 1/3), strikeouts (232) and games started (41).

Member of 1956 National League Champion Brooklyn Dodgers team and 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers team. Member of 1959, 1963 and 1965 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers teams.

Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 169-171. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Uniform number 53 retired by the Dodgers.

Retired in mid-season in 1969 after suffering a torn rotator cuff in his pitching shoulder.

Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984 in the same ceremony with Pee Wee Reese.

Held the record for consecutive 200-strikeout seasons with six until Tom Seaver broke it with his seventh consecutive such season in 1974.

Was an excellent hitting pitcher; hit 29 home runs during his career and was frequently used as a pinch hitter. Was the only Dodger to hit .300 in 1965.

Made major league debut on 17 April 1956.
 

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