Al Worthington Positions: Bats: R Throws: R Height: 74 Weight: 195 Born: Tuesday, February 05, 1929 in Birmingham, AL USA Died: in , Debut: 7/6/1953 Last Game: 10/2/1969 Full Name: Allan Fulton Worthington Al Worthington – February 5, 1929 Al player in the Majors for 14 seasons between 1953 & 1969. He played in Cincinnati…
The Los Angeles Dodgers play their first game at the Los Angeles Coliseum in front of a crowd of 78,672. Carl Erskine gets the win, besting Al Worthington and the San Francisco Giants, 6 – 5.
Giant rookie Al Worthington throws a four-hitter, blanking the Dodgers at Ebbets Field, 6-0. The whitewashing, which halts Brooklyn’s record NL streak of homering in 24 consecutive games and marks the only game this season the team will not a score, makes the 24 year-old right-hander the first National League freshman this century to throw consecutive shutouts at the start of a career, a feat that Karl Spooner will also match next season.