Charles Arthur "Dazzy" Vance was an American professional baseball player.
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24 Facts About Dazzy Vance
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Dazzy Vance played as a pitcher for five different franchises in Major League Baseball in a career that spanned twenty years.
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Dazzy Vance was discovered to have an arm injury in 1916 and was given medical treatment.
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Dazzy Vance continued to work on his pitching in the minor leagues, appearing with teams in Columbus, Ohio; Toledo, Ohio; Memphis, Tennessee; Rochester, New York; and Sacramento, California.
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Dazzy Vance only reappeared in the major leagues once for the Yankees, pitching two games in 1918.
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Dazzy Vance set the then-National League record for strikeouts in a nine-inning game when he fanned 15 Chicago Cubs in a game on August 23,1924.
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On September 24,1924, Dazzy Vance became the sixth pitcher in major-league history to pitch an immaculate inning, striking out all three batters on nine total pitches in the third inning of a game against the Cubs.
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Dazzy Vance finished the season with 262 strikeouts, more than any two National League pitchers combined.
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That season, Dazzy Vance had one out of every 13 strikeouts in the entire National League.
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Dazzy Vance was involved in one of the most famous flubs in baseball history, the "three men on third" incident during the 1926 season.
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Dazzy Vance, having rounded third, misunderstood and reversed course, returning to third.
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Dazzy Vance's play began to decline in the early 1930s and he bounced to the St Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and back to the Dodgers.
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On September 12,1934, Dazzy Vance hit his seventh and final major league home run at 43 years and 6 months, the 2nd oldest pitcher to do so to this day.
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However, just a week later commenting for a newspaper article, Dazzy Vance said that he did not recommend baseball as a career to young men.
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Dazzy Vance pointed out that very few people could make a good living out of it, especially during a time when increasing major league salaries were attracting many college-educated men who would have previously chosen other work.
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Dazzy Vance led the league in ERA three times, wins twice, and established a National League record by leading the league in strikeouts in seven consecutive years.
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Dazzy Vance enjoyed hunting and fishing when he retired to Homosassa Springs, Florida, where he had lived since the 1920s.
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Dazzy Vance recovered and became a frequent guest at Brooklyn old-timers games.
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Dazzy Vance learned of his election when a highway patrolman got his attention on a local highway and told him that a photographer was at his house.
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Dazzy Vance died of a heart attack in 1961 in Homosassa Springs.
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Dazzy Vance is mentioned in the 1949 poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash:.
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