Cliff Fannin

Clifford Bryson Fannin (May 13, 1924 – December 11, 1966) was an American right-handed pitcher who appeared in Major League Baseball from 1945 through 1952, spending his entire career with the St. Louis Browns. Born in Louisa, Kentucky, he stood 6 feet tall and weighed 170 pounds. Fannin pitched in 164 major league games, 98 of them as a starter, compiling a win–loss record of 34–51 with a 4.85 earned run average and 352 strikeouts. His most productive season came in 1948, when he went 10–14 with ten complete games and 102 strikeouts, the only year in which he reached 100 strikeouts. His career fell within the late-1940s American League, when the Browns ranked among the league's weaker franchises before the team relocated to Baltimore in 1954. Fannin died at age 42 in Sandusky, Ohio, of a coronary occlusion.