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20 Facts About Bob Friend

1.

Robert Bartmess Friend was an American professional baseball player.

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Bob Friend played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher between 1951 and 1966, most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Bob Friend played for the New York Yankees and New York Mets in his final season of 1966.

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Bob Friend is the first man to lead the league in ERA while pitching for a last place team.

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Bob Friend was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and grew up in nearby West Lafayette.

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Bob Friend's father was an orchestra leader, and Friend studied piano seriously until age sixteen, about the time of his father's death.

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At West Lafayette High School, Bob Friend was an all-state football halfback and an all-state pitcher on the baseball team, and played basketball and golf.

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Bob Friend enrolled at Purdue in the fall of 1949, but was ineligible for college athletics.

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Bob Friend attended Purdue during baseball off-seasons for eight years, eventually earning a bachelor's degree in economics in 1957, and was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

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10.

Bob Friend made 35 appearances, 20 of them starts for the 1954 Pirates.

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11.

Bob Friend was selected to his first All-Star team and was the winning pitcher of the 1956 All-Star Game.

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Bob Friend again led the NL in starts in 1957, with 38, and in innings pitched, with 277.

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In 1958 Bob Friend was selected to his second All-Star team, finish sixth in the NL MVP race, and third for the NL Cy Young Award.

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14.

In 1960, Bob Friend made the All-Star roster for the third time, leading the NL with 4.

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15.

Bob Friend started 35 games, completing 10 and using 236 innings.

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16.

Bob Friend played one more major league season, splitting the year between the two New York clubs.

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17.

In 1957, Bob Friend married Patricia Koval, a nurse in the office of the Pirates' team doctor.

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18.

Bob Friend served as controller of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1975.

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19.

Bob Friend was a three-time delegate to the Republican National Convention.

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20.

Bob Friend died unexpectedly at his home in O'Hara Township, outside of Pittsburgh on February 3,2019 from cardiac arrest at the age of 88.

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