{{Short description|American baseball player (1936–2019)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Barry Latman |position=Pitcher |image=Barry Latman.jpg |bats=Right |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date|mf=yes|1936|5|21}} |birth_place=Los Angeles, California, U.S. |death_date={{Death date and age|2019|4|28|1936|5|21}} |death_place=Richmond, Texas, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=September 10 |debutyear=1957 |debutteam=Chicago White Sox |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=August 12 |finalyear=1967 |finalteam=Houston Astros |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Win–loss record |stat1value=59–68 |stat2label=Earned run average |stat2value=3.91 |stat3label=Strikeouts |stat3value=829 |teams= *Chicago White Sox ({{mlby|1957}}–{{mlby|1959}}) *Cleveland Indians ({{mlby|1960}}–{{mlby|1963}}) *Los Angeles / California Angels ({{mlby|1964}}–{{mlby|1965}}) *Houston Astros ({{mlby|1966}}–{{mlby|1967}}) |highlights= * All-Star (1961²) }} '''Arnold Barry Latman''' (May 21, 1936 – April 28, 2019) was an American professional All Star Major League Baseball pitcher.

==Early and personal life== Latman was born in Los Angeles, California, and was Jewish.<ref name=autogenerated1>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/latmaba01.shtml Barry Latman Stats | Baseball-Reference.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Latman would not pitch on the Jewish High Holidays. His parents were Nathan (a furniture auctioneer) and Elsie (Snitzer) Latman.<ref name=autogenerated4>[https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/a7273dae Barry Latman | Society for American Baseball Research<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He had two younger sisters, Ann Lorraine and Carolee. When he was 10 years old, his parents required that he stop playing baseball for three years, to leave himself time to study for his bar mitzvah.<ref name=autogenerated4 /> He was nicknamed “Shoulders.”<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name=autogenerated2>[http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/a7273dae Barry Latman | Society for American Baseball Research<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He died on April 28, 2019, in Richmond, Texas.<ref>{{cite web |title=Barry Latman Baseball Stats |url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=latmaba01 |website=Baseball Almanac |access-date=20 May 2019}}</ref>

==High school and college== He attended Fairfax High School, pitching for the baseball team, and playing alongside future major leaguer Larry Sherry.<ref name=autogenerated4 /> He threw a perfect game in 1954, and was named the Los Angeles All-City Player by the Helms Athletic Foundation.<ref name=autogenerated4 /> He then attended the University of Southern California on a baseball scholarship.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name=autogenerated2 />

==Career== In the minor leagues in 1955 he pitched in Waterloo, Iowa, for the Waterloo White Hawks, in the Class-B Three-I League, and was 18–5 with an earned run average of 4.12, leading the league in innings pitched, and with his 18 wins one behind league leader Mudcat Grant.<ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/leader.cgi?type=pitch&id=b3b1fe01 1955 Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League Pitching Leaders | Baseball-Reference.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name=autogenerated3>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=latman001arn Barry Latman Minor Leagues Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In 1956, he pitched for the Memphis Chicks in the Double-A Southern Association, and was 14–14 with a 3.85 earned run average.<ref name=autogenerated3 /> In 1957 he pitched for the Indianapolis Indians of the Triple-A American Association, going 13–13 with an earned-run average of 3.95, and in three starts for the team the following year he was 3–0 with a 0.76 ERA.<ref name=autogenerated4 /><ref name=autogenerated3 />

Latman played all or part of 11 seasons in the majors, from 1957 until 1967, for the Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles/California Angels, and Houston Astros.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

In 1959 he was 6th in the American League in strikeouts per 9 innings pitched (5.596).<ref name=autogenerated1 /> In 1961 he was 4th in the AL with a .722 winning percentage, as he went 13–5 for the Indians.<ref name="baseball-reference1">{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/latmaba01.shtml |title=Barry Latman Statistics and History |publisher=Baseball-Reference.com |access-date=February 12, 2011}}</ref> Latman was an All Star in 1961. <ref name="baseball-reference1"/>

In 1997 he was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://scjewishsportshof.com/latman.html | work=Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame |title=Barry Latman }}</ref>

Through 2010, Latman was 6th all-time in career strikeouts (directly behind Jason Marquis), and 8th in games (344; directly behind Sandy Koufax) and wins (59; directly behind Erskine Mayer) among Jewish major league baseball players.<ref name=JML>{{cite web|title=Career Pitching Leaders|url=http://www.jewishmajorleaguers.org/|work=Career Leaders|publisher=Jewish Major Leaguers|access-date=February 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826042258/http://jewishmajorleaguers.org/|archive-date=August 26, 2012|url-status=usurped}}</ref>

==See also== *List of Jewish Major League Baseball players

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Baseballstats |mlb=117533 |espn= |br=l/latmaba01 |fangraphs=|brm=latman001arn }}, or [https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/L/Platmb101.htm Retrosheet], or [https://ripbaseball.com/2019/05/19/obituary-barry-latman-1936-2019/ RIP Baseball], or [https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/a7273dae SABR Biography Project] *[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199395005/barry-latman Barry Latman] at Find a Grave

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