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Frank Matt Baumann (July 1, 1933 – December 13, 2020) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs between 1955 and 1965. He batted and threw left
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Frank Matt Baumann (July 1, 1933 – December 13, 2020) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs between 1955 and 1965. He batted and threw left-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 205 pounds (93 kg). Baumann signed with the Red Sox in 1952 out of high school in his native St. Louis, receiving a $90,000 bonus from owner Tom Yawkey, who nicknamed him "Beau". He won 10 of 11 decisions for the Triple-A Louisville Colonels in 1953, his second season in professional baseball, before being drafted into United States Army service during the Korean War. When he mustered out of the Army in mid-1955, he joined the MLB Red Sox in late July. In his debut, he earned a victory with 52⁄3 innings of scoreless relief, as Boston defeated the Detroit Tigers, 3–2. But an arm injury incurred during his military service hampered his Red Sox tenure. He needed return trips to the minor leagues from 1956 to 1958 before making the Red Sox roster for the full 1959 campaign. Then, that November, he was traded to the White Sox for first baseman Ron Jackson. In 1960, as a member of the defending American League champions, he
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