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Carl Doyle

1912 – 1951

American baseball player

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Lived 1912 – 1951 (aged 39). Carl Doyle was an American baseball player.

William Carl Doyle (July 30, 1912 – September 4, 1951) was an American professional baseball pitcher who appeared in 51 games in four seasons in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics (1935–1936), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939–1940) and St. Louis Cardinals. A right-hander, he was listed as tall and .

Doyle's pro career lasted eight seasons (1935–1941, 1943). In his 51 MLB games pitched, he posted a 6–15 won–lost record and a poor 6.95 earned run average, surrendering 277 hits, 155 bases on balls, and 172 earned runs in 222 innings pitched; he fanned 101. Notably, he was one of four players that Brooklyn traded to the Cardinals on June 12, 1940, in their blockbuster acquisition of slugger Joe Medwick. He managed the Morristown Red Sox of the Mountain States League in 1950.

Doyle died in the city of his birth, Knoxville, Tennessee, of a pulmonary infarction in 1951 at age 39.

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Who was Carl Doyle?

American baseball player

When was Carl Doyle born?

Carl Doyle was born on 30 July 1912 in Knoxville.

When did Carl Doyle die?

Carl Doyle died on 4 September 1951 in Knoxville.

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Carl Doyle was a baseball player.

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Carl Doyle was American.

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· Wikipedia: Carl Doyle

· Wikidata: Q5040049

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