11 Facts About John Montefusco

John Montefusco played as a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1974 to 1986, most notably as a member of the San Francisco Giants with whom he won the National League Rookie of the Year Award and pitched a no-hitter.

John Montefusco played for the Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres, and the New York Yankees.

John Montefusco was a National League All-Star in 1976, winning a career high 16 games that year.

On September 3,1974, John Montefusco entered his first major league game as a relief pitcher.

John Montefusco is one of only a handful of pitchers to do so, and is one of two players to both hit a home run in his first at bat and win the Rookie of the Year Award.

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John Montefusco started the 1986 season in the team's bullpen but pitched in only four games before hip pain became too severe to pitch through.

In October 1997, John Montefusco was arrested and charged with beating his former wife of 23 years Doris, whom he had recently divorced, in her Colts Neck Township home.

John Montefusco was indicted in December 1997 and was held on $1 million in bail.

John Montefusco was released on bail in November 1999 after serving more than two years behind bars, and in February 2000, he was acquitted of the most serious charges and found guilty of criminal trespass and simple assault and sentenced to three years of probation.

At the time of his October 1997 arrest, John Montefusco had been a pitching instructor for the Tampa Yankees, a minor league team.

John Montefusco later spent several years as the pitching coach for the Somerset Patriots in the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball until resigning in September 2005.