James Lee Jim Kaat is an American former professional baseball player and television sports commentator.
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30 Facts About Jim Kaat
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Jim Kaat was an All-Star for three seasons and a Gold Glove winner for 16 seasons.
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Jim Kaat was the American League leader in shutouts in 1962, and the AL leader in wins and complete games in 1966.
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Jim Kaat was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Golden Days Era Committee in 2021 and enshrined in 2022.
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Jim Kaat spent all of 1957 and 1958 in the minor leagues before breaking into the majors in 1959.
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Jim Kaat was a member of the 1965 Twins team that won the American League pennant.
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Jim Kaat started three games in the 1965 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, matching up with Sandy Koufax on all three occasions, including a complete game victory in Game 2.
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However Jim Kaat sustained a season-ending arm injury in the third inning of the second-to-last game of the season and the Boston Red Sox swept the final two games to win the American League pennant.
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Jim Kaat was an All-Star three times, and won the Gold Glove Award for defensive skill a record 16 consecutive times .
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Jim Kaat is one of only 29 players in baseball history to date to have appeared in Major League games in four decades.
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Jim Kaat is third all-time, behind Nolan Ryan's 27 seasons and Tommy John's 26 campaigns.
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In January 2018, Jim Kaat was hired by the Minnesota Twins as a Special Assistant.
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Jim Kaat's role is "to help assist Twins president Dave St Peter in business, marketing and community initiatives".
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Jim Kaat has written a best-selling book, Still Pitching, and has started a sports management company, Southpaw Enterprises, Inc, solely representing pitchers.
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In May 2022, Jim Kaat released his third book, Good as Gold: My Eight Decades in Baseball.
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In 2014, Jim Kaat appeared for the second time as a candidate on the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Golden Era Committee election ballot for possible Hall of Fame consideration for 2015, which required 12 votes.
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Jim Kaat served as an analyst for Home Team Sports during the 1981 baseball strike.
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Jim Kaat only lasted one season as the Yankees replaced him with Billy Martin, who was between managing stints and who was purposely brought in to second-guess Lou Piniella.
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In 1986, Jim Kaat was the backup announcer for NBC Sports' coverage of baseball with Phil Stone and Jay Randolph .
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Besides calling four American League Championship Series for CBS, Jim Kaat served as a field reporter with Lesley Visser and Andrea Joyce during the World Series.
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Jim Kaat later announced that he was going to record a special farewell message to the fans, but would not return for any additional broadcasts.
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Jim Kaat writes a weekly on-line blog for the Yankees Network, Jim Kaat's Korner, and contributes video blogs and interviews regularly with national and international media outlets.
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Jim Kaat called Pool D in Puerto Rico for the 2009 World Baseball Classic games for an international feed.
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Jim Kaat apologized later in the broadcast for his "insensitive, hurtful remark".
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Jim Kaat created a memorial fund in her name to put lights on the baseball fields in his hometown of Zeeland, Michigan, in her honor.
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