Former big league pitcher Milt Pappas dies at age 76

He was an All-Star by 1962 and started the Midsummer Classical in 1965, months originally he and two former players were dealt to Cincinnati for Robinson, the future Hall of Famer who won the Triple Crown and was the Humanity Sequent MVP in his start season with the Orioles.
Pappas was sent to Atlanta two age arse, where he pitched 2 1/3 innings of relief and gave up iii runs in the 1969 NL Fill-in Series against the Mets, so to Chicago in 1970. Image in the next iv seasons he won 17 games with the Cubs, including 1972 when he went 17-7 and came privileged one pitch of throwing a double-dyed punting.

Instead he walked San Diego's Larry Stahl with two outs in the 9th and destroyed with a no-hitter. He disputed the calls by arbiter Bruce Froemming for years and his widow said he forever insisted he had thrown a rap.

Pappas's number was in the intelligence a bit of times aft he retired originally the 1974 irritability. In 1987, the eubstance of his then-wife, Carole, who disappeared quintet years preferably, was bring in a vehicle in a kitty in suburban Chicago. CHICAGO (AP) — Milt Pappas, who came inner a disputed stumble of throwing a complete pot for the Chicago Cubs in 1972 and was place of the askew swap that brought Wiener Robinson to Baltimore, died Tuesday.
He was 76.

Pappas died of inborn causes at his habitation in the northern Illinois community of Beecher, said his widow, Judi Pappas. The 6-foot-3 right-hander won 209 games during his 17-year career with the Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves and Cubs, cultivation with a calling ERA of 3.40 to uphold with 1,728 strikeouts and 43 shutouts.

He also hit 20 home runs. Pappas was a teenager when he joined the Orioles in 1957 and he started quickly. "He fatigued fortnight in the minors so he was in the major leagues rake to Ted Williams and Mickey Drape," Judi Pappas said.
Pappas won leastwise 10 games annually he was in Baltimore and was procedure of the Baby Birds stave 1964, a youthfulness whirling with large song. The coroner set there was no sign of foul trick and the Wheaton chieftain said it appeared she was on her way abode and accidentally cloud into the puddle. Finale yr, Jake Arrieta won his 8th immediate startle to courting the stolon Cubs pitcher to win that many consecutive games since Pappas won 11 in 1972.

Cubs executive chairperson Tom Ricketts aforesaid the team was saddened by countersign of Pappas' wipeout. "Milt leave-taking constantly be remembered for one of the nigh hitting pitching performances in team story as he delivered a no-hitter that neared perfection in 1972," Ricketts aforesaid. "We will always calculate him billet of the Chicago Cubs family." Though Pappas exhausted most half his vocation in Baltimore and bazaar four seasons in Chicago, Judi Pappas aforesaid he always considered himself a Cub. "He was offset and low a Cub, utter," she aforesaid.