Raymond Michael Sadecki was a Major League Baseball pitcher.
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16 Facts About Ray Sadecki
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Ray Sadecki is best remembered as the left-handed complement to Bob Gibson, who in 1964, won 20 games to lead the St Louis Cardinals to their first World Series title in eighteen years.
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Ray Sadecki became a full-time starting pitcher in 1961, and led his team with 222.
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Ray Sadecki proved to be one of the better hitting pitchers in the National League.
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Ray Sadecki was battered around by the Chicago Cubs in his first start four days later for his first loss of the season.
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Still only 23 years old at the start of the 1964 season, Ray Sadecki's name came up several times during the off season in trade rumors.
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Ray Sadecki was rumored to be heading to the San Francisco Giants for Felipe Alou, but that trade never materialized.
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Ray Sadecki pitched one inning of the second game of the 1966 season, and struck out the side.
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Ray Sadecki started the 1968 season with two shutouts in his first four starts.
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Ray Sadecki pitched a third complete game in which he did not allow an earned run a ninth inning error by Willie McCovey led to four unearned runs, and Sadecki's first loss of the season.
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Ray Sadecki's role seemed to diminish further in 1973; all fourteen relief appearances to start the season came in losses in which the Mets were already down by a substantial number of runs.
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Ray Sadecki pitched four scoreless innings, and was the winning pitcher in the thirteen inning marathon that featured the famous "Ball on the wall" play.
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Ray Sadecki hit his first career home run off Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry on June 9,1962.
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On June 11,2007, Ray Sadecki was inducted into The National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame.
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Ray Sadecki died from complications of blood cancer on November 17,2014.
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