Bob McCall

Robert Leonard McCall, nicknamed "Dutch," was a left-handed pitcher who played one season in Major League Baseball. Born December 27, 1920, in Columbia, Tennessee, he batted and threw left-handed. His entire major league career consisted of the 1948 season with the Chicago Cubs, debuting on April 27 and making his final appearance on October 3 of that year. Over that single campaign he compiled a record of 4 wins and 13 losses with a 4.82 earned run average and 89 strikeouts. During World War II, McCall served in the United States Army, reaching the rank of corporal before returning to professional baseball. After his playing days he lived in Arkansas. He died January 8, 1996, in Little Rock, Arkansas, at age 75, and is buried in Little Rock National Cemetery. His brief one-year tenure places him among the many post-war players whose major league time was limited to a single season during the late 1940s, an era when rosters were being reshaped by the return of servicemen from the war.