Cliff Ross

{{short description|American baseball player (1928–1999)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Cliff Ross |position=Pitcher |image=Cliff Ross.jpeg |caption= |bats=Left |throws=Left |birth_date={{Birth date|1928|08|03}} |birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1999|04|12|1928|08|03}} |death_place=Abington Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=September 11 |debutyear=1954 |debutteam=Cincinnati Redlegs |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=September 20 |finalyear=1954 |finalteam=Cincinnati Redlegs |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Win–loss record |stat1value=0–0 |stat2label=Earned run average |stat2value=0.00 |stat3label=Innings pitched |stat3value={{frac|2|2|3}} |teams= *Cincinnati Redlegs ({{mlby|1954}})}}'''Clifford David Ross''' (August 3, 1928{{snd}}April 12, 1999) was an American professional baseball player: a {{convert|6|ft|4|in|abbr=on}}, {{convert|195|lb|abbr=on}} left-handed pitcher. Born in Philadelphia, Ross played eight seasons of pro baseball between 1947 and 1957 and appeared in four games played for the Cincinnati Redlegs of Major League Baseball at the end of the {{baseball year|1954}} season.

==Career== Ross was recalled by the Redlegs after completing his most successful minor league season, in which we won 13 of 23 decisions with a 2.91 earned run average for the Class A Schenectady Blue Jays.<ref name="Haho">[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=ross--001cli Minor league record and playing statistics from Baseball Reference]</ref> Pitching in relief, Ross allowed no runs and no hits in his four MLB games, three of them against first division opponents. He struck out one hitter and — notably for a pitcher who once issued 204 bases on balls in 143 innings pitched in the minors<ref name="Haho"/> — walked no one. In {{frac|2|2|3}} innings, Ross faced the minimum of eight batsmen and retired them all. He did not earn a decision, but recorded one save.

Ross was listed on the Redlegs' 1955 spring training roster,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8jIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA3 ''Baseball Digest'', April 1955, page 84]</ref> but was sent to the minor leagues before the campaign began and never pitched again in the Major Leagues. As a minor leaguer, he won 45 and lost 69 in 229 appearances.<ref name="Haho"/>

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