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Joe Nuxhall, 1928-2007
2007-11-16 07:32
by Bob Timmermann

Joe Nuxhall, longtime Cincinnati Reds pitcher and broadcaster, passed away late Thursday in Cincinnati at age 79. The cause of death was cancer. (Accounts differ on the exact day of death.)

Nuxhall made his major league debut at age 15 (the youngest confirmed age of any major leaguer ever, altthough Fred Chapman most likely has him beat) on June 10, 1944. He would return the majors again in 1952 and pitch briefly for the Kansas City A's (missing the Reds NL pennant in 1961) and the Los Angeles Angels, before returning to Cincinnati and retiring after the 1966 season. Nuxhall worked for the Reds as a broadcaster from 1967-2004.

MLB.com story with a link to a Nuxhall tribute.

 

Comments
2007-11-16 08:19:08
1.   JL25and3
When people talk about unbeatable records, this is surely one: 15 years, 10 months, 11 days.
2007-11-16 11:38:52
2.   El Lay Dave
... 7 hours, and 27 seconds old when he found himself astride a rubber strip embedded atop a meticulously sculpted mound of dirt. The facts are these: ....

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