David Clifford Wickersham is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1960 through 1969, he played for the Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates and Kansas City Royals. Wickersham batted and threw right-handed. He debuted on September 18, 1960 and played his final game on July 26, 1969. Wickersham while playing college ball at Ohio University was scouted by Branch Rickey and George Sisler. The Pittsburgh Pirates signed him in 1955. He was later acquired by the Kansas City Athletics in the 1959 minor league draft. He pitched for the Athletics in part of two seasons from 1960-61. In 1962 he had an 11-4 mark and led American League pitchers with a .733 winning percentage, and went 12-15 and 3.78 in 1963. At the end of that season, he was sent to the Detroit Tigers in the same trade that brought slugger Rocky Colavito to the Athletics. Wickersham enjoyed his most productive season for Detroit in 1964, when he went 19-12 with a 3.44 ERA and posted career-numbers in strikeouts, starts, complete games, appearances and innings pitched, being considered in the American League MVP vote. [More at Wikipedia]

September 27th, 1935 in Erie  /  Died:   Jun 18th, 2022 - aged 86