About Gus Ketchum
Lived 1897 – 1980 (aged 83). Gus Ketchum was an American baseball player.
Augustus Franklin Ketchum (March 21, 1897 – September 6, 1980) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in six games for the 1922 Philadelphia Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). Listed at and , he threw and batted right-handed.
Biography Ketchum played in minor league baseball from 1922 to 1930, except for 1928.
In August and September 1922, Ketchum pitched in six games for the Philadelphia Athletics, the only major league appearances of his career. In six relief appearances totaling 16 innings, he compiled an 0–1 record with a 5.62 earned run average while striking out four batters.
Born in 1897 in Royse City, Texas, Ketchum died in 1980 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and was interred in Altus, Oklahoma.
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Who was Gus Ketchum?
American baseball player (1897–1980)
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Gus Ketchum was born on 21 March 1897 in Royse City.
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Gus Ketchum died on 6 September 1980 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Gus Ketchum was a baseball player.
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