John Duffie
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John Brown Duffie
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 7", Weight 210 lb.
- School Brewton-Parker College
- Debut September 18, 1967
- Final Game September 24, 1967
- Born October 4, 1945 in Greenwood, SC USA
[edit] Biographical Information
John Duffie was up in the majors in September 1967. He had been with Albuquerque that year, going 16-9 with a 2.40 ERA. His manager at Albuquerque was Duke Snider, and his teammates there included Charlie Hough, Willie Crawford and Ted Sizemore. Duffie led the Albuquerque pitching staff in wins.
He was not quite 22 when he made his major league debut. In 9.2 innings of work he had an ERA of 2.79. He was a year younger than fellow pitcher Don Sutton and two years younger than Bill Singer.
John was born in Greenwood, SC in 1945. He is the only major leaguer born in South Carolina that year. He attended Brewton-Parker College in Georgia in 1965-66, and was signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as a free agent in 1966. That same summer, he went 13-8 for Jamestown in the New York-Penn League. The only other player from that team who eventually made the majors was Leon Everitt, who was up in 1969.
After John's successful season in 1967, he was back in the minors in 1968-69 with Spokane, used primarily as a reliever.
Although there has (through 2011) never been another major leaguer named Duffie, there was a minor leaguer in the 1960's named Douglas Duffie.
