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b. January 31, 1931 · Cleveland Indians 1955–1957, Detroit Tigers 1958–1967, Los Angeles Dodgers 1968, Chicago Cubs 1969–1970

He went 16-8 in 1962 with a 2.21 earned run average, the lowest in the league, and was chosen for the All-Star team. He had been a reliever for four years before that and went back to being one after two seasons in the rotation.

He also hit .085 — 33 hits in 388 at bats across sixteen years. He knew exactly how bad he was, made a running joke of it, and asked for the ball the one time he hit a double.

Sixteen seasons gave him 75 wins against 72, a 3.24 earned run average, 1,375 innings and 33 saves. He pitched ten years for Detroit and finished with the Cubs at thirty-nine. He then built an auto-parts company in southwest Detroit that employed Mexican-American workers by the hundred and became one of the largest Hispanic-owned businesses in the country. He died of cancer in 1994, at sixty-three.

Honors

Award	Times	Years
All-Star selection	1	1962

Batting, season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
1955	CLE	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
1956	CLE	16	18	1	2	0	0	2	0	11	0	.111
1957	CLE	10	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
1958	DET	44	14	1	3	1	0	1	1	5	0	.214
1959	DET	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
1960	DET	37	28	0	1	0	0	0	0	19	0	.036
1961	DET	45	9	0	0	0	0	1	0	8	0	.000
1962	DET	42	75	0	2	0	0	1	1	46	0	.027
1963	DET	38	76	5	10	3	0	6	3	48	1	.132
1964	DET	32	53	1	3	1	0	3	1	32	0	.057
1965	DET	32	70	4	6	1	0	4	4	43	0	.086
1966	DET	30	25	0	3	1	0	0	4	16	0	.120
1967	DET	31	2	0	1	0	1	3	0	1	0	.500
1968	LAD	25	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
1969	CHC	41	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	.400
1970	CHC	17	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
Career	—	447	388	14	33	7	1	21	14	236	1	.085

Pitching, season by season

Year	Team	W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
1955	CLE	2	0	4	1	0	12.2	6	2	12	6	1.42
1956	CLE	3	5	16	9	1	65.1	63	27	27	31	3.72
1957	CLE	1	1	10	1	0	20.1	26	13	13	9	5.75
1958	DET	3	4	44	3	5	69.2	67	29	27	38	3.75
1959	DET	0	0	3	0	0	2.2	4	1	3	3	3.38
1960	DET	5	3	37	6	10	94.2	75	30	30	80	2.85
1961	DET	4	4	45	0	8	55.1	44	20	38	32	3.25
1962	DET	16	8	42	22	3	216.0	162	53	65	156	2.21
1963	DET	14	15	38	33	0	225.2	222	92	68	134	3.67
1964	DET	5	10	32	27	1	161.2	134	68	59	88	3.79
1965	DET	14	10	32	32	0	208.1	185	83	60	141	3.59
1966	DET	3	9	30	14	0	103.2	104	44	26	50	3.82
1967	DET	0	1	31	1	0	41.1	34	11	17	33	2.40
1968	LAD	1	2	25	0	3	39.1	32	3	13	25	0.69
1969	CHC	1	0	41	0	1	45.0	45	13	12	19	2.60
1970	CHC	3	0	17	0	1	14.0	13	7	9	11	4.50
Career	—	75	72	447	149	33	1375.2	1216	496	479	856	3.24

On this day & linked events

1931

Born January 31, 1931

Azusa, CA, USA

1994

Died September 5, 1994

1955

Major-league debut: Hank Aguirre

Hank Aguirre made a major-league debut on September 10, 1955.

1970

Final major-league game: Hank Aguirre

Hank Aguirre played a final major-league game on June 24, 1970.

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