Gordon Vincent Sundin (October 10, 1937 – May 2, 2016)Obituary was an American professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher whose career lasted for six seasons (1955–1959; 1961), but who made only one appearance in Major League Baseball — failing to record an out — for the Baltimore Orioles. Sundin batted right-handed, stood tall, and weighed .
Sundin's lone MLB appearance came on Wednesday, September 19, 1956, at Briggs Stadium against the Detroit Tigers. Baltimore was already behind, 8–1, when Sundin, three weeks shy of his 19th birthday, came into the game in the bottom half of the eighth inning. He faced two batters — Tiger pitcher Frank Lary and Harvey Kuenn — and issued two bases on balls. He started in on a third batter, nearly knocking down Jack Phillips with an errant pitch, before he was relieved by Billy O'Dell without completing the Phillips at-bat. One report credited Sundin with throwing eleven straight balls, though Sundin himself insisted “I got a strike in there somewhere.”https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/gordie-sundin/
Lary would later score an earned run charged against Sundin1956-9-19 box score from Retrosheet (giving the Baltimore pitcher an earned run average of infinity per baseball's statistics).
Sundin's catcher for that game was Tom Gastall, who entered the game with Sundin in the middle of the eighth. The next day, Gastall was killed in a plane crash.
Sundin compiled a 14–23 win-loss record and a 5.86 ERA in 5 seasons of minor league baseball, retiring in 1961 at the age of 23.Minor league statistics from Baseball Reference
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