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Russ Meyer (baseball)

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Win–loss record
  
94–73

Role
  
Baseball player

Name
  
Russ Meyer

Strikeouts
  
672

Earned run average
  
3.99


Russ Meyer (baseball)

Died
  
November 16, 1997, Oglesby, Illinois, United States

Russell Charles Meyer (October 25, 1923 – November 16, 1997) was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. His nickname was "Mad Monk".

Signed by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent in 1942, Meyer would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Chicago Cubs on September 13, 1946, and appear in his final game on June 28, 1959.

Meyer was the first of three pitchers in Major League history to have gone at least 23 consecutive road starts without a loss: Allie Reynolds set the record with 25, spanning the 1948 and 1949 seasons, a feat current Kansas City Royals pitcher Chris Young fell one short of. Meyer went 24 consecutive road starts without a loss during the 1953 and 1954 seasons.

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