For other people with a similar name, see William Daley

William Daley

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William Garland Dailey (born May 13, 1935 in Arlington, Virginia) is an American

United States

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 former Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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 relief pitcher

Relief pitcher

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 who played for four seasons for the Cleveland Indians

Cleveland Indians

The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...

 from 1961 to 1962 and the Minnesota Twins

Minnesota Twins

The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...

 from 1963 to 1964. The right-hander stood 6 in 3 in (1.91 m) tall and weighed 185 pounds (83.9 kg).

Dailey spent almost nine full years in minor league baseball

Minor league baseball

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 before his recall by the Indians in August 1961. In Dailey's one full Major League season — with the Twins — he appeared in 66 games played

Games played

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 (second among American League

American League

The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League , is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes states, which eventually aspired to major...

 pitchers), compiling a 6–3 record and a 1.99 earned run average

Earned run average

In baseball statistics, earned run average is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number of innings pitched and multiplying by nine...

. His 21 saves ranked third in the league that season. But he sustained a rotator cuff

Rotator cuff

In anatomy, the rotator cuff is the group of muscles and their tendons that act to stabilize the shoulder. The four muscles of the rotator cuff, along with the teres major muscle, the coracobrachialis muscle and the deltoid, make up the seven scapulohumeral muscles of the human body.-Function:The...

 injury in , and he retired from baseball after the season.

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