Dale Wesley Matthewson (May 15, 1923 – February 20, 1984) was a professional

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. He was a right-handed

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over parts of two seasons (1943–44) with the

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. For his career, he compiled an 0–3 record, with a 4.34

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 16

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s in 58 innings pitched. Matthewson was born in

Catasauqua, Pennsylvania Catasauqua, referred to colloquially as Catty, is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. Catasauqua's population was 6,518 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown in the ...

and died in

Blairsville, Georgia Blairsville is a city in and the county seat of Union County, Georgia, Union County, on the northern border of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. It was founded near the Nottely River, which was dammed in 1942 as part of the Tennessee ...

at the age of 60.

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* 1923 births 1984 deaths Philadelphia Phillies players Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Rome Colonels players Trenton Packers players Knoxville Smokies players Louisville Colonels (minor league) players Birmingham Barons players Jersey City Giants players San Francisco Seals (baseball) players Mobile Bears players Gadsden Chiefs players Danville Leafs players Tampa Smokers players Macon Peaches players Tulsa Oilers (baseball) players People from Blairsville, Georgia 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseball-pitcher-1920s-stub