# Cliff Ross
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{{short description|American baseball player (1928–1999)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Cliff Ross
|position=[Pitcher](/source/Pitcher)
|image=Cliff Ross.jpeg
|caption=
|bats=Left
|throws=Left
|birth_date={{Birth date|1928|08|03}}
|birth_place=[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania](/source/Philadelphia%2C_Pennsylvania), U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1999|04|12|1928|08|03}}
|death_place=[Abington Township](/source/Abington_Township%2C_Montgomery_County%2C_Pennsylvania), 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](/source/Win%E2%80%93loss_record_(pitching))
|stat1value=0–0
|stat2label=[Earned run average](/source/Earned_run_average)
|stat2value=0.00
|stat3label=[Innings pitched](/source/Innings_pitched)
|stat3value={{frac|2|2|3}}
|teams=
*[Cincinnati Redlegs](/source/Cincinnati_Redlegs) ({{mlby|1954}})}}'''Clifford David Ross''' (August 3, 1928{{snd}}April 12, 1999) was an American professional [baseball](/source/baseball) player: a {{convert|6|ft|4|in|abbr=on}}, {{convert|195|lb|abbr=on}} left-handed [pitcher](/source/pitcher). Born in [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia), Ross played eight seasons of pro baseball between 1947 and 1957 and appeared in four [games played](/source/games_played) for the [Cincinnati Redlegs](/source/Cincinnati_Redlegs) of [Major League Baseball](/source/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](/source/Minor_League_Baseball) season, in which we won 13 of 23 [decisions](/source/decision_(baseball)) with a 2.91 [earned run average](/source/earned_run_average) for the Class A [Schenectady Blue Jays](/source/Schenectady_Blue_Jays).[[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=ross--001cli Minor league record and playing statistics from Baseball Reference]] Pitching in [relief](/source/relief_pitcher), Ross allowed no [runs](/source/run_(baseball)) and no [hits](/source/hit_(baseball)) in his four MLB games, three of them against [first division](/source/first_division_(baseball)) opponents. He [struck out](/source/strikeout) one hitter and — notably for a pitcher who once issued 204 [bases on balls](/source/bases_on_balls) in 143 [innings pitched](/source/innings_pitched) in the minors[[https://books.google.com/books?id=8jIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA3 ''Baseball Digest'', April 1955, page 84]] 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.