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Don NewcombeFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Don Newcombe Newcombe in 1955.PitcherBorn: (1926-06-14) June 14, 1926 (age91)
Madison, New JerseyBatted: LeftThrew: RightMLB debutMay 20,1949,for theBrooklyn DodgersLast MLB appearanceOctober 1,1960,for theCleveland IndiansMLB statisticsWin–loss record149–90Earned run / Los Angeles Dodgers (1949–1951, 1954–1958)
Cincinnati Redlegs / Reds (1958–1960)Cleveland Indians (1960)Chunichi Dragons (1962)Career highlights and awards
- 4× All-Star (1949–1951, 1955)
- World Series champion (1955)
- NL MVP (1956)
- Cy Young Award (1956)
- NL Rookie of the Year (1949)
- MLB wins leader (1956)
- MLB strikeout leader (1951)
Donald Newcombe (born June 14, 1926), nicknamed Newk, is an American former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (1949–51 and 1954–58), Cincinnati Reds (1958–60) and Cleveland Indians (1960).
Until 2011 when Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander accomplished the feat, Newcombe was the only baseball player to have won the Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards in his career. In 1949, he became the first black pitcher to start a World Series game. In 1951, Newcombe was the first black pitcher to win twenty games in one season.[1] In 1956, the inaugural year of the Cy Young Award, he became the first pitcher to win the National League MVP and the Cy Young in the same season.[2]
Newcombe compiled a career batting average of .271 with 15 home runs and was used as a pinch hitter, a rarity for pitchers.
Early life[edit]
Newcombe was born in Madison, New Jersey, and was raised in Elizabeth where he attended Jefferson High School.[3][4]
Career[edit]
After playing one season with the Newark Eagles in the Negro Leagues, Newcombe signed with the Dodgers. With catcher Roy Campanella, Newcombe played for the first racially integrated baseball team based in the United States in the 20th century, the 1946 Nashua Dodgers of the New England League. He continued to play for Nashua in 1947 before moving up through the minor leagues. He debuted for Brooklyn on May 20, 1949. Effa Manley, business manager for the Eagles, agreed to let the Dodgers\' Branch Rickey sign Newcombe to a contract. Manley was not compensated for the release of Newcombe.[5]:p.288 He immediately helped the Dodgers to the league pennant as he earned seventeen victories, led the league in shutouts, and pitched 32 consecutive scoreless innings. He was also among the first four black players to be named to an All-Star team, along with teammates Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella and the Indians\' Larry Doby. Newcombe was named Rookie of the Year by both The Sporting News and the Baseball Writers\' Association of America. In 1950, he won 19 games, and 20 the following season, also leading the league in strikeouts in 1951. In the memorable playoff game between the Dodgers and the Giants at the end of the 1951 season, Newcombe was relieved by Ralph Branca in the bottom of the ninth inning before Branca surrendered the walk-off home run to Bobby Thomson.
After two years of military duty during the Korean War, Newcombe suffered a disappointing season in 1954, going 9–8 with a 4.55 earned run average, but returned to form the next year by finishing second in the NL in both wins and earned run average, with marks of 20–5 and 3.20, as the Dodgers won their first World Series in franchise history. He had an even greater 1956 season, with marks of 27–7, 139 strikeouts, and a 3.06 ERA, five shutouts and 18 complete games, leading the league in winning percentage for the second year in a row. He was named the National League\'s MVP, and was awarded the first-ever Cy Young Award, then given to the best pitcher in the combined major leagues.
Following the Dodgers\' move to Los Angeles, Newcombe got off to an 0–6 start in 1958 before being traded to the Reds for four players in midseason. He posted a record of 24–21 with Cincinnati until his contract was sold to Cleveland in mid-1960. He finished with a 2–3 mark in Cleveland before being released to end his major league career.
In his ten-year major league career, Newcombe registered a record of 149–90, with 1129 strikeouts and a 3.56 ERA, 136 complete games and 24 shutouts in 2154 innings pitched. In addition to his pitching abilities, Newcombe was a dangerous hitter, hitting seven homers one season. He batted .271 (ninth-best average in history among pitchers), with 15 home runs, 108 runs batted in, 238 hits, 33 doubles, 3 triples, 94 runs scored and 8 stolen bases.
On May 28, 1962, Newcombe signed with the Chunichi Dragons of Japan\'s Nippon Professional Baseball. Doby would join him the same year. Newcombe played one season in Japan, splitting time as an outfielder and a first baseman, only pitching in one game. In 81 games, he hit .262 with 12 home runs and 43 RBI.[6]
Life after retirement[edit] Newcombe in 2009
Newcombe rejoined the Dodger organization in the late 1970s and served as the team\'s Director of Community Affairs. In March 2009 he was named special adviser to the chairman of the team.[7]
