Thomas Gentry Warren (July 5, 1917 – January 2, 1968) was an Oklahoma
Muscogee
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Major League Baseball
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left-handed
pitcher
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. He was born in
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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.
Warren is one of many ballplayers who only appeared in the
major leagues during World War II conflict. He made 22 pitching appearances for the
Brooklyn Dodgers
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during the 1944 season, starting four of them and completing two, allowing 114 baserunners on 74
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and 40
walks in just 68
inning
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s. He also gave up 52
runs (14
unearned), while his lone win came on July 30, 1944 in the first game of a
doubleheader at
Ebbets Field
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, when he was the
starting pitcher
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in a 10–4 victory against the
St. Louis Cardinals
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.
Warren's 1944 season totals included a record of 1–4 with 18
strikeouts
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and an
ERA
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of 4.98, ending ninth in the
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with 14
games finished
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. A pretty good
switch hitting pitcher, he batted .256 (11-for-43) with one run scored and two
RBI in 41 games, 19 of them in
pinch hitting
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duties.
In between, Warren spent 14 seasons in the
Minor Leagues
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and played winter ball with the
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of the
Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
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History Background and predecessors
Baseball had been play ...
in 1949. He played for the Galt Terriers of the semipro Intercounty League in southern Ontario in the summer of 1949. During the seventh game of a league semifinal series versus the Brantford Red Sox, Warren, playing center field, badly misplayed a routine fly ball late in the game that allowed Brantford to take the lead. Suspicions linger to this day about the honesty of Warren's efforts in that crucial game.
Plagued by gambling problems and related debts, Warren died by suicide in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the age of 50.
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