Major League Baseball. In 325 career games, Houtteman pitched 1,555
innings and posted a win–loss record of 87–91, with 78 complete
games, 14 shutouts, and a 4.14 earned run average. He was signed by
scout Wish Egan in 1945 at 17 years of age, and joined a Detroit Tigers
pitching staff that had lost players to injuries and World War II. After
moving between the major and minor leagues over the next few years, he
was nearly killed in a driving accident just before the 1949 season.
Houtteman rebounded from his injuries and went on to win 15 games that
season and made his only All-Star appearance in the following year. He
played three more seasons with the Tigers, then pitched for the pennant-
winning Cleveland Indians during their 1954 season. After losing his
position as starting pitcher, he played two more seasons with the
Indians before he was bought by the Baltimore Orioles, with whom he
finished his final season in Major League Baseball. Houtteman ended his
baseball career in the minor leagues and became a sales executive in
Detroit.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Houtteman>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations became
the first of England's Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegiance to
the British Crown.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Rhode_Island_and_Providence_Plantations>
1814:
Ferdinand VII abolished the Spanish Constitution of 1812,
returning Spain to absolutism.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Constitution_of_1812>
1942:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy engaged Allied naval
forces at the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first fleet action in which
aircraft carriers engaged each other.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea>
1974:
An all-female Japanese team reached the summit of Manaslu in
the Himalayas, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaslu>
2000:
Ken Livingstone took office as the first Mayor of London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Livingstone>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
effrontery:
1. (uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.
2. (countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/effrontery>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day,
and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
--T. H. Huxley
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/T._H._Huxley>
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