Irving John Medlinger (June 18, 1927 – September 3, 1975) was a professional

baseball player Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding te ...

. He was a left-handed

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over parts of two seasons (1949, 1951) with the

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. For his career, he did not record a decision, with a 13.83

earned run average In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the average of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game). It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number ...

, and 9 strikeouts in 13.2 innings pitched. He was born in

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. He was one of two people killed aboard a

Piper PA-24 Comanche The Piper PA-24 Comanche is an American four-seat or six-seat, low-wing, all-metal, light aircraft of semimonocoque construction with tricycle retractable landing gear. Piper Aircraft designed and developed the Comanche, which first flew on Ma ...

destroyed on September 3, 1975, while attempting a crash-landing near Wheeling,

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, after its engine failed.planecrashinfo.com Famous People Who Died in Aviation Accidents: 1970s
/ref> He died at the age of 48.

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