Melvin Leon Stottlemyre, Sr. (born November 13, 1941 in Hazleton, Missouri

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) is a former Major League Baseball

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 pitcher and pitching coach. He played 11 years in the Major Leagues, all of them with the New York Yankees

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. After his playing career, Stottlemyre worked as pitching coach with the New York Mets

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, Houston Astros

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, New York Yankees

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 and Seattle Mariners

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.
Called up midseason in 1964, Stottlemyre

Stottlemyre

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 went 9–3 to help the Yankees to their fifth consecutive pennant

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 while being on the cover of The Sporting News.