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Bobby Gene Tiefenauer (October 10, 1929 – June 13, 2000) was an American professional
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player and
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. A
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, he pitched for six Major League teams during a ten-year MLB career that stretched between and : the
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(1952, 1955, 1961),
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(1960, 1965–67),
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(1962),
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(1963–65),
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(1965) and
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(1968). Tiefenauer was born in
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; he threw and batted
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and was listed as tall and . Tiefenauer signed with the Cardinals in 1948, beginning his 21-year pitching career, but spent only two full seasons ( and ) on a major league roster. In 1964, with the Milwaukee Braves, he had one of his better seasons,
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13 games (eighth best in the
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) with an
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of 3.21. All told, Tiefenauer worked in 179 MLB
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, exclusively as a relief pitcher. He posted a 9–25 won–lost mark, with 23 career saves. In 316
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, he allowed 312
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and 87
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, with 212
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s. His career ERA was 3.84. Tiefenauer collected only one hit in 39
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for a career
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of .026. The hit occurred in the fourth inning of the game between the Houston Colt .45s and the
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on September 29, 1962, and it was an extra base hit, a
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, struck off one of the best pitchers in baseball that year,
Jack Sanford John Stanley Sanford (May 18, 1929 – March 7, 2000) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Sanford was notable for the meteoric start to his career when, he led the National League w ...
, who would win 24 games for the pennant-winning 1962 Giants. Tiefenauer pitched six innings in relief that day, and also came up to bat in the sixth inning when he grounded out to shortstop. After his active career, Tiefenauer joined the
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' organization as a
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pitching coach from 1970 into the 1980s, and served one year, , as the bullpen coach on the Phils' MLB staff. Tiefenauer enjoyed multiple brilliant seasons in the Triple-A
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during the late 1950s and early 1960s, posting a composite won–lost record of 49–15 over four seasons between 1958 and 1963. He was posthumously elected to the
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in 2008.


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