Scott Sanderson Marquee

b. July 22, 1956 · Montreal Expos 1978–1983, Chicago Cubs 1984–1989, Oakland Athletics 1990, New York Yankees 1991–1992, California Angels 1993, 1995–1996, San Francisco Giants 1993, Chicago White Sox 1994

Scott Sanderson won 163 games without ever quite becoming a star, and his one All-Star selection came in 1991, at thirty-four, in his fourteenth season. He won sixteen games for the Yankees that year.

Montreal brought him up in 1978 and he spent six years there in a rotation with Steve Rogers and Bill Gullickson, then six more with the Cubs, where back trouble cost him a great deal of time. Oakland got a healthy season out of him in 1990 and he won seventeen games as they went to the World Series.

Born in Dearborn, Michigan in 1956, Sanderson threw 2,561 innings with 1,611 strikeouts and finished 163-143. His death came on April 11, 2019, at sixty-two.

Honors

Award	Times	Years
All-Star selection	1	1991

Batting, season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
1978	MON	10	19	0	2	0	0	0	0	11	.105
1979	MON	34	50	0	8	2	0	1	0	23	.160
1980	MON	33	64	3	5	3	0	1	2	33	.078
1981	MON	22	35	2	4	2	0	6	9	18	.114
1982	MON	32	57	5	8	3	1	6	2	20	.140
1983	MON	18	28	1	4	2	0	1	0	8	.143
1984	CHC	24	42	3	5	0	0	5	3	18	.119
1985	CHC	19	31	1	2	0	0	1	1	17	.065
1986	CHC	38	51	1	3	1	0	2	0	23	.059
1987	CHC	32	40	2	3	0	1	2	3	20	.075
1988	CHC	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
1989	CHC	37	43	1	2	0	0	1	5	22	.047
1990	OAK	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
1991	NYY	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
1992	NYY	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
1993	CAL/SFG	32	14	1	0	0	0	0	1	11	.000
1994	CHW	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
1995	CAL	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
1996	CAL	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
Career	—	473	474	20	46	13	2	26	26	224	.097

Pitching, season by season

Year	Team	W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
1978	MON	4	2	10	9	0	61.0	52	17	21	50	2.51
1979	MON	9	8	34	24	1	168.0	148	64	54	138	3.43
1980	MON	16	11	33	33	0	211.1	206	73	56	125	3.11
1981	MON	9	7	22	22	0	137.1	122	45	31	77	2.95
1982	MON	12	12	32	32	0	224.0	212	86	58	158	3.46
1983	MON	6	7	18	16	1	81.1	98	42	20	55	4.65
1984	CHC	8	5	24	24	0	140.2	140	49	24	76	3.14
1985	CHC	5	6	19	19	0	121.0	100	42	27	80	3.12
1986	CHC	9	11	37	28	1	169.2	165	79	37	124	4.19
1987	CHC	8	9	32	22	2	144.2	156	69	50	106	4.29
1988	CHC	1	2	11	0	0	15.1	13	9	3	6	5.28
1989	CHC	11	9	37	23	0	146.1	155	64	31	86	3.94
1990	OAK	17	11	34	34	0	206.1	205	89	66	128	3.88
1991	NYY	16	10	34	34	0	208.0	200	88	29	130	3.81
1992	NYY	12	11	33	33	0	193.1	220	106	64	104	4.93
1993	CAL/SFG	11	13	32	29	0	184.0	201	86	34	102	4.21
1994	CHW	8	4	18	14	0	92.0	110	52	12	36	5.09
1995	CAL	1	3	7	7	0	39.1	48	18	4	23	4.12
1996	CAL	0	2	5	4	0	18.0	39	15	4	7	7.50
Career	—	163	143	472	407	5	2561.2	2590	1093	625	1611	3.84

On this day & linked events

1956

Born July 22, 1956

Dearborn, MI, USA

2019

Died April 11, 2019

1978

Major-league debut: Scott Sanderson

Scott Sanderson made a major-league debut on August 6, 1978.

1990

Nolan Ryan's No-Hitter

Nolan Ryan threw a no-hitter for the Texas Rangers against the Oakland Athletics on June 11, 1990, winning 5–0.

1996

Final major-league game: Scott Sanderson

Scott Sanderson played a final major-league game on May 15, 1996.

Image: Lion Photo, public domain