Dick Calmus

American baseball player (born 1944)

Baseball player

Dick Calmus

Pitcher
Born: (1944-01-07) January 7, 1944 (age 80) Los Angeles, California
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 22, 1963, for the Los Angeles Dodgers
Last MLB appearance
September 2, 1967, for the Chicago Cubs
MLB statistics
Record	3-1
ERA	3.17
Strikeouts	26

Teams
Los Angeles Dodgers (1963) Chicago Cubs (1967)

Richard Lee Calmus (born January 7, 1944) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He attended Webster High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was the Tulsa World's Oklahoma basketball player of the year in 1962.^[1] He played baseball on the same high school team as fellow future major leaguer Carl Morton and won two state titles.^[2]

Signed as a "bonus baby" by the Los Angeles Dodgers (and thus required to stay on the major league roster for his first season), he posted a 3–1 record and 2.66 ERA in 1963 but then developed arm trouble in the minor leagues; later traded to the Chicago Cubs, he never won another game in the majors.^[3]

He is the uncle of Rocky Calmus, who played in the NFL after winning the Butkus Award in 2001 as a linebacker for the University of Oklahoma.^[4]

References

^ "All State Basketball History", Tulsa World, April 4, 2010.
^ Mike Brown, "Prep Work", Tulsa World, July 15, 1997.
^ Bill Connors, "Bill Connors", Tulsa World, August 11, 1989.
^ Austin Murphy, "Big 12 battle: Oklahoma anticipating showdown with Nebraska", Sports Illustrated, October 20, 2000.