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      • Ronald Lee Kline (March 9, 1932 – June 22, 2002) was an American professional baseball player.
      He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher over parts of seventeen seasons (1952, 1955–1970) with the Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Angels, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins, San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox and Atlanta Braves. For his career, he compiled a 114–144 record in 736 appearances, most as a relief pitcher, with a 3.75 earned run average and 989 strikeouts.


      Biography


      Kline missed the 1953–1954 baseball seasons due to military service.
      Kline was born in Callery, Pennsylvania, and returned there to serve as mayor after leaving baseball.


      Death


      Kline died in Callery in June 2002 at the age of seventy. He had heart and kidney problems at the time of his death.


      See also


      List of Major League Baseball annual saves leaders


      References




      External links


      Career statistics from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet
      Ron Kline at SABR (Baseball BioProject)

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