Dick Calmus
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Richard Lee Calmus
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 4", Weight 187 lb.
- Debut April 22, 1963
- Final Game September 2, 1967
- Born January 7, 1944 in Los Angeles, CA USA
[edit] Biographical Information
"Calmus is a fine young prospect." - Don Drysdale, quoted in the May 1964 issue of Baseball Digest
Dick Calmus was a member of the world-champion 1963 Los Angeles Dodgers, for whom he pitched 21 games at the age of 19. He was also with the 1967 Chicago Cubs.
Calmus was born in Los Angeles, CA but attended high school in Tulsa, OK, where a teammate of his was Carl Morton. Signed as a free agent in 1962, Dick began in the minors with an 8-4 record in the Midwest League in 1962.
In 1963 he was in the majors, pitching 44 innings. He had a 3-1 record with a 2.66 ERA. The team as a whole had a 2.85 ERA.
1964 found him in the minors with Albuquerque, for whom he went 12-13. In 1965-66 he was with Spokane. In 1966 he had a record of 11-10 with an ERA of 3.45, very close to that of another 22-year-old on the team, Bill Singer, who had a record of 13-11 with an ERA of 3.48. Singer became a major league regular for the Dodgers in 1967 while Calmus was traded to the Chicago Cubs in April 1967.
With the Cubs, Calmus spent most of 1967 pitching for their Tacoma farm club, with an ERA of 2.84. The Tacoma team ERA was 3.52. Another 23-year-old on the team, Bill Stoneman, had a similar ERA of 2.79 and went on to make his major league debut in July 1967 and pitch eight seasons in the majors. Calmus, for his part, came up to pitch one game in September for the 1967 Cubs, giving up four runs in 4.1 innings.
Dick was back in the minors in 1968, and then came back to the Dodgers organization in 1969, pitching once more for Albuquerque.
[edit] Notable Achievement
- Won a World Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1963 (he did not play in the World Series)
