Ralph Robert Scott was a left-handed specialist

Left-handed specialist

In baseball, a left-handed specialist is a left-handed relief pitcher who specializes in pitching to left-handed batters, or to switch-hitters who bat poorly right-handed...

 pitcher

Pitcher

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 in North American Major League Baseball (MLB)

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 who played in portions of five seasons with the Baltimore Orioles

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, Montreal Expos

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 and California Angels

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 from 1972 to 1977. He was born in Weimar

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, East Germany.

Scott was selected out of Newburgh Free Academy

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 by the New York Yankees

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 in the 17th round (328th overall) of the 1965 Major League Baseball Draft

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. He was the first high school

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 baseball player drafted out of the Mid-Hudson region of the Hudson Valley

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 by any MLB club. He was traded to the Chicago White Sox

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 for Pete Ward

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 on December 18, 1969.

He also spent nine seasons in the Minor leagues

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, mostly for the Rochester Red Wings

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 of the International League

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. In 1971, he collected a 9-1 record with nine saves

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 and a 3.38 earned run average

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 in 54 games for manager Joe Altobelli

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’s pennant-winning and Governor's Cup winning-team. He had an even better season for Rochester in 1974, when he was 8-2 with 17 saves and a 0.99 ERA in 57 games.

In a nine-year minors career, he posted a 60-32 record with 46 saves and a 3.20 ERA in 297 pitching appearances.

He was elected to the Red Wings Hall of Fame in 1998, along with Allie Clark

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, Frank Horton

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 and Al Weber.

Scott died in Binghamton, New York

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, at the age of 64.

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