Lee William "Flame" Delhi (November 5, 1892 – May 9, 1966) 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 one game for the

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in 1912. Delhi was the first

Arizona Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort ...

-born player to appear in the major leagues. The Arizona chapter of the

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(SABR) is named for him.Flame Delhi biography
at home page of the Arizona SABR Chapter, retrieved November 13, 2015

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* 1892 births 1966 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Chicago White Sox players Los Angeles Angels (minor league) players San Francisco Seals (baseball) players Great Falls Electrics players Kansas City Blues (baseball) players Baseball players from Arizona Santa Monica High School alumni 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseball-pitcher-1890s-stub