Charles Edwin "Dutch" Lieber (February 1, 1910 – December 31, 1961) was a professional

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. He was a right-handed

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over parts of two seasons (1935–36) with the

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. For his career, he compiled a 1–2 record, with a 4.01

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 15

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s in 58.1 innings pitched. He was born in

Alameda, California Alameda ( ; ; Spanish for "Avenue (landscape), tree-lined path") is a city in Alameda County, California, United States, located in the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), East Bay region of the Bay Area. The city is built on an informal archipe ...

and died in

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at the age of 51.

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1910 births 1961 deaths Philadelphia Athletics players Major League Baseball pitchers Mission Reds players Albany Senators players Los Angeles Angels (minor league) players Birmingham Barons players Portland Beavers players Baseball players from Alameda, California Burials at Los Angeles National Cemetery 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseball-pitcher-1910s-stub