Michael Douglas Garman is a former Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

 pitcher

Pitcher

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 whom the Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox

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 selected with the third overall pick in the 1967 Major League Baseball Draft

1967 Major League Baseball Draft

-First round selections:The following are the first round picks in the 1967 Major League Baseball draft.- Background :The June draft was filled with talented prospects who would go on to pro careers...

. His brother, Stephen, spent two seasons in the San Francisco Giants

San Francisco Giants

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 organization.

Boston Red Sox

Garman signed with the Red Sox upon graduation from Caldwell High School, and was assigned to the Greenville Red Sox of the Western Carolinas League

Western Carolinas League

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. He lost the only game he appeared in for Greenville, giving up three hits

Hit (baseball)

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 and two walks

Base on balls

A base on balls is credited to a batter and against a pitcher in baseball statistics when a batter receives four pitches that the umpire calls balls. It is better known as a walk. The base on balls is defined in Section 2.00 of baseball's Official Rules, and further detail is given in 6.08...

 in the only inning he pitched. He was then reassigned to the Winston-Salem Red Sox, where he went 1-3 with a 6.75 earned run average

Earned run average

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.

After three seasons in Boston's farm system, Garman debuted with the BoSox as a September call-up in , and won his major league debut against the New York Yankees

New York Yankees

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 just six days after his twentieth birthday. After spending all of in the minors, he joined the Sox as a September call-up in and as well, and made the big league roster out of the bullpen

Bullpen

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 in . He had no decisions in twelve appearances as manager Eddie Kasko

Eddie Kasko

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 used him mostly in mop up rolls.

Following his only full season with the BoSox, he was traded with John Curtis

John Curtis (baseball)

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 and Lynn McGlothen

Lynn McGlothen

Lynn Everett McGlothen was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1972 through 1981, McGlothen played for the Boston Red Sox , St. Louis Cardinals , San Francisco Giants , Chicago Cubs , Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees...

 to the St. Louis Cardinals

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 for Reggie Cleveland

Reggie Cleveland

Reginald Leslie "Reggie" Cleveland is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.Cleveland was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers and Milwaukee Brewers. He ended his career with 105 wins, with a 3.73 ERA and 930 strikeouts. Reggie...

, Terry Hughes

Terry Hughes (baseball)

Terry Wayne Hughes is a former Major League Baseball third baseman. Listed at 6'1", 185 lb., Hughes batted and threw right-handed....

 and Diego Segui

Diego Seguí

Diego Pablo Seguí González is a Cuban former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was known for his forkball.During a 16-year baseball career, Seguí played for the Kansas City Athletics , Washington Senators , Oakland Athletics , Seattle Pilots , Boston Red Sox , and Seattle Mariners . He batted and...

.

St. Louis Cardinals

It was with the Cardinals that Garman enjoyed his best seasons. He was 7-2 with a 2.64 ERA and six saves in . Though his record dipped to 3-8 in , his ERA did as well, to 2.39. He also collected ten saves. He was traded to the Chicago Cubs

Chicago Cubs

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 with a player to be named later for Don Kessinger

Don Kessinger

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. In his only season in Chicago

Chicago

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, Garman made two emergency starts in the second games of double headers, losing both.

Los Angeles Dodgers

On January 11, , the Cubs sent Garman and Rick Monday

Rick Monday

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 to the Los Angeles Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers

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 for Bill Buckner

Bill Buckner

William Joseph Buckner is a former Major League Baseball first baseman. Despite winning a batting crown in , representing the Chicago Cubs at the All-Star Game the following season and accumulating over 2,700 hits in his twenty-year career, he is best remembered for a fielding error during Game 6...

, Ivan De Jesus and Jeff Albert. He reached the post season for the only time in his career with the Dodgers, appearing in two games of the 1977 National League Championship Series

1977 National League Championship Series

-Game 1:Tuesday, October 4, 1977 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CaliforniaThe Phillies took the opening game of the series, winning their first postseason game since Game 1 of the 1915 World Series...

 and two games in the 1977 World Series

1977 World Series

-Game 1:Tuesday, October 11, 1977 at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New YorkThe Dodgers drew first blood off Don Gullett in the first when Davey Lopes walked and scored on a Bill Russell triple. Ron Cey made it 2–0 on a sacrifice fly...

 without giving up an earned run.

Garman was traded during the season to the Montreal Expos

Montreal Expos

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 for Gerry Hannahs

Gerry Hannahs

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 and Larry Landreth

Larry Landreth

Larry Robert Landreth was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in seven games for the Montreal Expos from 1976-1977.-External links:...

. After one season with the Expos, he failed to make the team in Spring training

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 . He signed a minor league deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates

Pittsburgh Pirates

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, and also spent part of the season with the Cleveland Indians

Cleveland Indians

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' triple A affiliate before retiring.