Matthew Thomas DeSalvo was born on September 11,1980 and is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.
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14 Facts About Matt DeSalvo
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Matt DeSalvo made his major league debut with the New York Yankees on May 7,2007, against the Seattle Mariners going 7 innings and only giving up 3 hits.
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Matt DeSalvo was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame in July 2016, becoming the first Division III pitcher inducted.
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Matt DeSalvo was an All-League player for the Delaware Cows of the Great Lakes League, He played for the Danbury Westerners of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
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Matt DeSalvo was signed as an undrafted free agent by the New York Yankees in 2003.
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Matt DeSalvo made his major league debut for the Yankees on May 7,2007, against the Seattle Mariners.
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On May 25,2009, Matt DeSalvo was signed to a minor league deal by the Tampa Bay Rays.
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Matt DeSalvo pitched 5 innings, striking out 7 and giving up 6 earned runs.
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Matt DeSalvo was the winning pitcher thanks to an 18 run outburst by the York team.
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Matt DeSalvo returned to pitch an inning in the final regular season game.
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Matt DeSalvo then pitched in both the divisional series win against Lancaster and the championship series win vs Long Island.
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Matt DeSalvo signed with the Lamigo Monkeys of the Chinese Professional Baseball League for the 2012 season.
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Matt DeSalvo has a reading list with over 400 titles, and has read about 200 so far, including Albert Camus' Myth of Sisyphus and Christa Wolf's In Search of Christa.
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