Pat McGlothin

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Ezra Mac McGlothin

Bats Left, Throws Right
Weight 180 lb.
School University of Tennessee
Debut April 25, 1949
Final Game April 18, 1950
Born October 20, 1920 in Coalfield, TN USA

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Pat McGlothin a right-hander out of the University of Tennessee who came to be called Pat because of his Irish descent, Ezra Mac McGlothin first took to the mound with the class D Elizabethton Betsy Red Sox of the Appalachian League as a 21 year old unattached free agent in 1942. His first year in the pros would see him win 10 and lose 9 with a 2.97 ERA. Before anything else could happen Pat would spend the next three years (1943-45) in the United States Navy during World War II.

On his return from the service McGlothin was obtained by the Brooklyn Dodgers from the Mobile Bears of the Southern Association before the 1946 season as part of a minor league working agreement. Pat would have three excellent seasons from (1946-48) with Mobile and the St. Paul Saints of the American Association, winning 43 games and losing only 24 over the three year span. Pat's showing earned him short trials in Brooklyn in 1949 and 1950 dividing a pair of decisions, and he made his league debut in a relief role against the Phillies at Shibe Park on Opening Day. This would be the extent of Pats major league run, finishing at 1-1 with a 5.60 ERA , appearing in eight games.

McGlothin would leave baseball in 1954, after spending three seasons with St. Paul (1951-53) and winding up his minor league run in 1954 with the Birmingham Barons and the Knoxville Smokies. Overall he had spent ten active seasons in the minors, finishing with a 108-76 record with a 3.80 ERA while appearing in 292 games. Pat talked about a game he pitched in the Navy in 1942. "It was an All-Star game at the naval air station in Corpus Christi, TX, against a team with Ted Williams in the lineup from the Pensacola, FL, naval air station. The game went 19 innings and I pitched the whole game and drove in the winning run. I faced Williams nine times and he was 0-7 and I walked him twice."

After leaving baseball in 1954 McGlothin has been in the insurance business ever since. As of last word he was still active as the CEO of a Mutual agency and his son is the president. McGlothin was inducted into the Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame on August 14, 1999.