Richard Martin Terwilliger (June 27, 1906 – January 21, 1969) was a

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("Pitch (baseball), pitches") the Baseball (ball), baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out (baseball), retiring a batter (baseball), batter, ...

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. He played for the

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in 1932, making just one big league appearance on August 18, 1932. In his lone MLB appearance, Terwilliger pitched three scoreless innings in a game that the famous

Dizzy Dean Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean (January 16, 1910 – July 17, 1974), also known as Jerome Herman Dean (both the 1910 and the 1920 Censuses show his name as "Jay"), was an American professional baseball pitcher. During his Major League Baseball (MLB) ca ...

had started, a 10–4 loss to the Phillies in which Terwilliger pitched the final three frames for St. Louis."Dick Terwilliger Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2011-02-10.

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1906 births 1969 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers St. Louis Cardinals players Moline Plowboys players Baseball players from Michigan People from Kent County, Michigan 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseball-pitcher-1900s-stub