Ray Lamb

Raymond Richard Lamb (December 28, 1944 – December 25, 2025) was an American former pitcher in Major League Baseball for two teams, and a highly regarded commercial sculptor of fantasy miniature figurines.

Major league pitcher During college, Ray Lamb was a pitcher for the University of Southern California Trojans, where he wore the number 42.

A 40th round pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1966, Lamb played for three seasons in the minor leagues before he was called up to the major leagues. He joined the Dodgers on August 1, 1969, and was given jersey number 42, the number he had worn in college, but also the number that Jackie Robinson had worn as a Brooklyn Dodger. No other Dodger in either Brooklyn or Los Angeles had worn that number since Robinson had retired in 1957. Lamb wore the jersey for the rest of the season, and pitched very well: in 15 innings of work, he struck out 11, with a 1.80 ERA, earning one loss and one save. "amazingly lifelike", "a great degree of deeply etched detail", One writer called Lamb "one of the world's greatest miniature sculptors."

Lamb died on December 25, 2025.