Jack Sanford
American baseball player and coach
Died when: 70 years 294 days (849 months)Star Sign: Taurus
John Stanley Sanford (May 18, 1929 – March 7, 2000) was an American professional baseball player.He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1956 through 1967.
Sanford was notable for the meteoric start to his career when, he led the National League with 188 strikeouts as a 28-year-old rookie for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1957.
He later became a 20-game-winner and made his only World Series appearance as a member of the San Francisco Giants.
He also played for the California Angels and the Kansas City Athletics.
Related People
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License