Phil Marchildon

Philip Joseph Marchildon (October 25, 1913 – January 10, 1997) was a Canadian right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who appeared between 1940 and 1950. Born in Penetanguishene, Ontario, he batted and threw right-handed. Marchildon pitched almost his entire career for the Philadelphia Athletics (1940–1942, 1945–1949), with one final game for the Boston Red Sox in 1950; 184 of his 185 major-league appearances came in an Athletics uniform. Over 1,214 1/3 innings he posted a 68–75 record with a 3.93 ERA and 481 strikeouts. His best seasons were 1942, when he went 17–14 with a 4.20 ERA, and 1947, when he went 19–9 with a 3.22 ERA; he finished ninth in American League MVP voting in both years and at times led the league in walks allowed. His career was interrupted by World War II, during which he served as a tail gunner with the Royal Canadian Air Force; he was shot down over Germany in 1944 and held as a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III for the final months of the conflict. He was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983. His career fell within baseball's pre-integration era.