VINTAGE BASEBALL MEMORABILIA Vintage Baseball Memorabilia Clay Carroll Position: PitcherBats: Right • Throws: Right6-1, 178lb (185cm, 80kg)Born: May 2, 1941 in Clanton, ALDebut: September 2, 1964vs. STL 2.0 IP, 1 H, 1 SO, 0 BB, 0 ERLast Game: October 1, 1978 vs. PHI 2.0 IP, 2 H, 0 SO, 2 BB, 1 ERFull Name: Clay Palmer CarrollNicknames: Hawk View Player Bio from the SABR BioProject Clay Carrol Debut: September 2,…
After being a member of the White Sox for two days, Dick Ruthven goes to Atlanta, along with Ken Henderson and Ozzie Osborn. Chicago receives Ralph Garr and Larvell Blanks. Blanks is then dealt to Cleveland for 2B Jack Brohamer. The Sox then trade P Rich Hinton and C Jeff Sovern to the Reds for P Clay Carroll, and finish the day by shipping IF Lee Richard to the Cards for OF Buddy Bradford and P Greg Terlecky.
October 11, 1975 At Fenway Park (Photo) Luis Tiant pitching to Pete Rose in the 1975 World Series. Luis Tiant and Don Gullett were locked in a scoreless pitching duel until the seventh inning. Tiant led off with a single and later scored Boston’s first run on a single by Carl Yastrzemski. Then the…
In Los Angeles, George Foster’s home run off Andy Messersmith is the only score as the Reds win, 1 – 0. The unrelated Carrolls – Tom Carroll and Clay Carroll – combine for the Reds.
In a record-setting walkathon between the Reds and Expos, 25 bases on balls are handed out as Montreal strolls to an 11 – 6 win. Well off the American League’s two-team mark of 30, this tops the National Leaguerecord of 23, last reached on July 7, 1911. Six Montreal pitchers walk 16, one short of the record for an NL team, while Reds pitchers Clay Carroll and Tom Hall walk 9. Hal King pinch hits a grand slam for the Reds in the 6th inning, his second pinch dinger in nine days.
The Reds edge the Expos‚ 1 – 0‚ in 12 innings on Johnny Bench’s single. Ross Grimsley and Clay Carroll combine on the shutout.
On June 23, 1971, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Rick Wise puts on an awesome one-man display in pitching a 4-0 victory. At Riverfront Stadium, Wise no-hits a powerful Cincinnati Reds’ lineup, he faces only 28 batters on 95 pitches. Pete Rose is retired as the final out. Wise also becomes the first man to hit two…
In the Braves’ first game after the All-Star break, Hank Aaron goes deep off Clay Carroll in the fifth inning of the team’s 9-8 comeback victory over Cincinnati at Crosley Field. The round-tripper, the 534th home run of his career, moves the ‘Hammer’ into fourth place on the all-time list, ahead of Jimmie Foxx and only two behind Mickey Mantle.
At Shea Stadium, Reds Ps Jim Maloney and Clay Carroll combine on a one-hit, 5 – 3, victory. Maloney gives up a run-scoring double to Cleon Jones in the 1st inning and then is lifted in the 6th after walking three batters. Carroll gives up two run-scoring grounders, but pitches four hitless frames.
1968 – Reds pitchers George Culver and Clay Carroll allow 13 hits between them but still shut out the Pirates, 2 – 0. Culver allows eight hits in six innings and Carroll gives up five hits in three innings.