Basic Information About Don Drysdale
| Category | Athletes › Baseball Players |
|---|---|
| Professions | Baseball player, Actor, Sports commentator |
| Net worth | $3,000,000 |
| Date of birth | 1936-07-23 |
| Place of birth | Van Nuys |
| Date of death | 1993-07-03 (aged 56) |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Spouse | Ann Meyers - (1 November 1986 - 3 July 1993) (his death) (3 children) Ginger Drysdale - (27 September 1958 - 22 October 1984) (divorced) (1 child) |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.98 m) |
| Social Media | ↗︎ Wikipedia ↗︎ IMDb |
Famous Network of Baseball with Similar Net Worth
What Movie Awards did Don Drysdale win?
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| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Don Drysdale roles
| Movie / Series | Role |
|---|---|
| The Brady Bunch | Don Drysdale 1 episode, 1970 |
Don Drysdale's Quotes
- "Why use four pitches to put someone on base intentionally when I can do it with one?" (when asked why he hit a batter with a pitch instead of walking him intentionally)
Don Drysdale's photos
Interesting Facts about Don Drysdale
- Star basketball player at UCLA.
- 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.
- Born at 9:10am-PDT
- 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, 1961-1965 and 1967-1968).
- 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.
- When he was a student at Van Nuys High School, one of his classmates was Robert Redford.
References & Fact Checks ✅
- 1/ Filename: drydale-and-koufax-on-active-duty-training-03Q6W13v.jpg
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- Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drydale_and_Koufax_on_active_duty_training.jpg
- Original Source:
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
https://calisphere.org/item/5535c259f4c4974b0c3314c4fb332a95/ - Author: Los Angeles Public Library
- Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
- Date taken: 20 March 1966
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- Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LAret53.PNG
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Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. - Author: Mghabmw at English Wikipedia
- Date taken: 20 August 2007 (original upload date)
- 3/ Filename: vin-scully-center-dodgers-announcer-in-dodgertown-for-spring-training-with-pitchers-don-drysdale-left-and-sandy-koufax-right-1985-62F8kpQG.jpg
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- Checked: ✅ Yes (2023-07-02 02:51:30)
- Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vin_Scully_(center),_Dodgers_announcer,_in_Dodgertown_for_Spring_Training_with_pitchers_Don_Drysdale_(left)_and_Sandy_Koufax_(right),_1985.jpg
- Original Source:
https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0015r387 - Author: Jayne Kamin, Los Angeles Times
- Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
- Date taken: 8 April 1985
- 4/ Filename: don-drysdale-plaque-GSc73438.jpg
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- Checked: ✅ Yes (2023-07-02 02:51:31)
- Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Don_Drysdale_plaque.jpg
- Original Source:
Own work - Author: Penale52
- Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
- Date taken: 24 July 2016
