Jim Nash Baseball player

James Edwin Nash (born February 9, 1945 in Hawthorne, Nevada), commonly nicknamed Jim Nash, is a retired American professional baseball pitcher. He debuted on July 3, 1966 against the Detroit Tigers after then Kansas City Athletics signed him as a free agent. During his rookie season in '66 he went 12-1 as part of the kiddie corps of pitchers featured in Kansas City. Nash would appear on the cover of the March 13, 1967 Sports Illustrated and was featured in a story along with up and coming pitchers Catfish Hunter and Blue Moon Odom. [1] Nash however failed to live up to the hype from his first two seasons and ended with a career record of 68 wins and 64 losses with a lifetime ERA of 3.58, allowing 1,050 hits and 441 earned runs after little more than 1,100 innings pitched. He went on to play 4 seasons for the Athletics and 3 seasons for the Atlanta Braves, playing his final season with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1972.

Personal facts

Birth dateFebruary 09, 1945
Birth place
Hawthorne Nevada

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Baseball player

Career startJuly 03, 1966
Career endSeptember 30, 1972
batting sideRight
former teams
Philadelphia Phillies
History of the Oakland Athletics
position
Pitcher
teams
Atlanta Braves
Oakland Athletics
Philadelphia Phillies
throwing sideRight

Jim Nash on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8015/index.htm
  2. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=nashji01