Former All-Star Eddie Fisher handed away on Monday at 88. His obituary was supplied by an Oklahoma funeral house.
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Fisher moved to Oklahoma as a toddler. He attended OU earlier than signing with the Giants in 1958. A knuckleballer, Fisher reached the majors inside a 12 months of signing his professional contract. He pitched sparingly over three seasons with San Francisco. The Giants included the 6’2″ righty in a commerce bundle to the White Sox for veteran pitchers Billy Pierce and Don Larsen in the course of the 1961-62 offseason.
Fisher spent components of 5 seasons in Chicago. Working primarily as a protracted reliever, he rattled off 4 straight years with at the very least 120 innings and a sub-4.00 earned run common. Fisher had his finest season in 1965, when he turned in a 2.40 ERA whereas main the American League in appearances (82) and WHIP (0.974). He made his lone All-Star look, the place he tossed two scoreless innings. Fisher completed fourth in AL MVP balloting behind Zoilo Versalles and future Corridor of Famers Tony Oliva and Brooks Robinson.
It was extra of the identical in ’66. Fisher carried a 2.29 ERA over 35 1/3 innings for the White Sox, who swapped him to the Orioles for center infielder Jerry Adair that June. Fisher tossed 71 2/3 frames with a 2.64 mark down the stretch for Baltimore. The O’s went on to win the World Sequence, getting Fisher the one ring of his profession. He didn’t make an look within the Fall Basic. Baltimore’s sweep of the Dodgers included full recreation shutouts from Jim Palmer, Wally Bunker and Dave McNally, so they’d no use to make use of their bullpen.
Fisher continued to take in innings out of the ’pen for a number of groups into the Seventies. He pitched yet one more season with Baltimore and spent 4 years with the California Angels, for whom he turned in a 3.22 ERA. He had a short second stint with the White Sox and wrapped his profession with the Cardinals in ’73.
He concluded a 15-year huge league run with a 3.41 earned run common in additional than 1500 innings. Fisher received 85 video games and recorded 812 strikeouts. He completed 344 contests and was credited with 82 saves (most of them retroactively as a result of the stat wasn’t formally tracked by MLB till 1969). MLBTR sends condolences to Fisher’s household, mates and family members.
