Carlos Whitman Moore is a former Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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 player. A right-handed pitcher

Pitcher

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...

, Moore had a listed weight of 180 pounds.

Moore's playing career in the majors spanned one month. He made his major league debut with the Washington Senators

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...

 on May 4, 1930, and pitched his final game with them on May 30. He was effective in his four games on the mound, posting a 2.31 ERA

Earned run average

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 in 11 2/3 of relief work and allowing only 13 baserunners.

After the end of Moore's playing career, he worked as a manager in the minor leagues. While working in this capacity for the Jeanerette Blues

Jeanerette Blues

The Jeanerette Blues were a minor league baseball team that operated from 1934-1939. They were originally the Lake Charles Explorers based in Lake Charles, Louisiana but moved to Jeanerette, Louisiana when a fire destroyed their stadium during the 1934 season.. They folded after the 1939 season....

 of the Evangeline League, Moore noted the strong throwing arm of his team's weak-hitting first baseman

First baseman

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 Eddie Lopat

Eddie Lopat

Edmund Walter ""The Junkman"" Lopat was a Major League Baseball pitcher.Lopat was born in New York, New York. His Major League debut was on April 30, 1944, playing for the Chicago White Sox....

, and he suggested that Lopat might want to consider a career as a pitcher. Lopat subsequently developed into an All-Star

All-star

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, winning 166 major league games and earning five World Series

World Series

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 rings in the starting rotation of the New York Yankees

New York Yankees

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External links

• Moore's major league statistics at Baseball-Reference.com