Jack Billingham

Jack Billingham was a right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball from 1968 through 1980. Born in Orlando, Florida, he signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1961 and spent seven years in their minor-league system before his major league debut in 1968. He is best known for his time with the Cincinnati Reds, who won three National League pennants and two World Series championships between 1972 and 1977. His combined 0.36 ERA across the 1972, 1975, and 1976 World Series stood as the lowest in World Series history until 2014. He was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 1984.