Gary Robert Lavelle is a retired professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball

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 from 1974–1985 and 1987.

Lavelle grew up in Pennsylvania, where he attended Liberty High School

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 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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Lavelle spent the majority of his Major League career with the San Francisco Giants

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, and also played for the Toronto Blue Jays

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 and Oakland Athletics

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 before retiring in 1987. He posted a career high 13 wins in 1978 and is listed at number 79 in MLB's all-time saves list, with 136 career saves.

He now lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia

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 and coaches baseball at Greenbrier Christian Academy

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 in Chesapeake, Virginia

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As of the census of 2000, there were 199,184 people, 69,900 households, and 54,172 families residing in the city. The population density was 584.6 people per square mile . There were 72,672 housing units at an average density of 213.3 per square mile...

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