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Phil Regan
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Birthdate: 4/6/1937    
Height / Weight: 6' 3" / 200 lbs. Place of Birth: Otsego, MI, USA
Bats / Throws: R / R

Baseball Historian Biography

Phil Regan enjoyed a successful 15-year major league career, first as a starter and later as a well-regarded reliever.

 

He wrote an essay as a freshman while attending Wayland High School in Michigan on what he expected to be doing in 10 years. His answer ‘pitching for the Detroit Tigers.’ And, indeed he was.

 

Phil Regan posted three straight winning seasons mainly as a starter from 1961-1963, including a very fine 15-9 record in 1963.

 

Traded to the LA Dodgers prior to 1966 he was trust into the reliever’s role. And quickly picked up the nickname of Vulture by Dodgers pitchers because he seemed to pick up easy victories while in relief of starters. The year 1966 for Phil Regan could be termed ‘The Year of Individual Achievement.’ His 13 game winning streak represented the majors longest streak of the season. And, his 14-1 record plus 21 saves in 65 games, along with a miserly 1.62 ERA earned him the ‘Sporting News’ Comeback Player of the Year Award. In the ’66 World Series Phil Regan struck out 2, yielded no hits in 1 2/3 innings.

 

After missing a few games of the start of the 1968 season because of rheumatoid arthritis he was traded by the Dodgers in April along with minor league outfielder Jim Hickman to the Cubs for Dick Savage and Jim Ellis. Chicago had Phil Regan diagnosed and found he had a 30-day variety of arthritis.

 

While pitching for the Dodgers and later the Cubs it was strongly suggested by opposing teams that he was throwing a spitball. As a fact: in August of 1968 while pitching for the Cubbies he was running on the base paths towards home and ran into Reds catcher Pat Corrales. And, Reds pitcher George Culver claimed after the play he found a tube of Vaseline and several slippery tablets around home plate. NL president Warren Giles conducted a hearing but afterwards league umpires were told to not check Phil Regan anymore. Baseball History

 


Pitching Statistics
Year Team G GS W L SV CG SHO IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WP HBP BK ERA
1960 DET (AL) 17 7 0 4 1 0 0 68.0 70 39 34 11 25 1 38 1 2 0 4.50
1961 DET (AL) 32 16 10 7 2 6 0 120.0 134 70 70 19 41 1 46 1 1 0 5.25
1962 DET (AL) 35 23 11 9 0 6 0 171.1 169 89 77 23 64 0 87 2 1 1 4.04
1963 DET (AL) 38 27 15 9 1 5 1 189.0 179 95 81 33 59 5 115 6 7 1 3.86
1964 DET (AL) 32 21 5 10 1 2 0 146.2 162 87 82 21 49 4 91 4 5 0 5.03
1965 DET (AL) 16 7 1 5 0 1 0 51.2 57 31 29 6 20 1 37 2 0 0 5.05
1966 LAD (NL) 65 0 14 1 21 0 0 116.2 85 24 21 6 24 9 88 4 0 0 1.62
1967 LAD (NL) 55 3 6 9 6 0 0 96.1 108 38 32 2 32 17 53 5 2 1 2.99
1968 LAD (NL) 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 7.2 10 3 3 1 1 0 7 0 0 0 3.52
1968 CHC (NL) 68 0 10 5 25 0 0 127.0 109 36 31 9 24 6 60 3 2 0 2.20
1969 CHC (NL) 71 0 12 6 17 0 0 112.0 120 49 46 6 35 13 56 3 2 0 3.70
1970 CHC (NL) 54 0 5 9 12 0 0 75.2 81 43 40 8 32 7 31 0 1 0 4.76
1971 CHC (NL) 48 1 5 5 6 0 0 73.1 84 37 32 4 33 13 28 0 2 0 3.93
1972 CHW (AL) 10 0 0 1 0 0 0 13.1 18 7 6 1 6 2 4 0 1 0 4.05
1972 CHC (NL) 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 4.0 6 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 2.25
15 years   551 105 96 81 92 20 1 1372.2 1392 649 585 150 447 79 743 31 26 3 3.84
Batting Statistics
Year Team G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS IBB HBP SH SF AVG OBP SLG
1960 DET (AL) 17 17 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 .59 .158 SLG
1961 DET (AL) 33 40 4 3 1 0 0 1 3 15 0 0 0 0 3 0 .75 .140 SLG
1962 DET (AL) 35 63 4 13 2 0 0 6 2 22 0 0 0 0 4 0 .206 .231 SLG
1963 DET (AL) 38 63 5 9 0 0 1 5 3 21 0 0 0 0 3 1 .143 .179 SLG
1964 DET (AL) 33 41 3 13 2 0 0 1 5 13 0 0 0 0 4 0 .317 .391 SLG
1965 DET (AL) 16 12 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 .83 .154 SLG
1966 LAD (NL) 65 21 2 3 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 .143 .250 SLG
1967 LAD (NL) 55 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .100 .100 SLG
1968 CHC (NL) 68 20 3 3 1 0 0 1 0 8 0 0 0 1 3 0 .150 .190 SLG
1968 LAD (NL) 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 .0 SLG
1969 CHC (NL) 71 15 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 .67 .222 SLG
1970 CHC (NL) 54 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 .100 SLG
1971 CHC (NL) 48 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 .0 .0 SLG
1972 CHW (AL) 10 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .1000 .1000 SLG
1972 CHC (NL) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 .0 SLG
15 years   553 321 23 49 7 0 1 15 22 108 0 0 0 2 25 1 .153 .211 .SLG



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