Danny McDevitt

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Daniel Eugene McDevitt

Bats Left, Throws Left
Height 5' 10", Weight 175 lb.
School St. Bonaventure University
Debut June 17, 1957
Final Game September 19, 1962
Born November 18, 1932 in New York, NY USA

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Danny McDevitt pitched six years in the major leagues, most notably for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers. In 1957, the Dodgers' last year in Brooklyn, McDevitt went 7-4 and threw the Dodgers' last pitch in Brooklyn Dodgers history before they moved to Los Angeles. In L.A. in 1959, McDevit went 10-8 in the regular season for a team that went on to win the 1959 World Series.

He was the same age as Johnny Podres.

McDevitt was a part-time starting pitcher for the Dodgers in 1959 and for a time appeared to be a promising young pitcher. After an arm injury caused an earlier end to his career, he became a minor league umpire.

On July 3, 2007, he and Joe Pignatano attended the game between the Brooklyn Cyclones and Hudson Valley Renegades, and McDevitt threw out the first pitch.

He is mentioned in the book Planet of the Umps.

As of 2009, he is the last major leaguer to come out of St. Bonaventure University, a college whose first major leaguer was John McGraw.