{{Short description|American baseball player (1945–2015)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Lou Marone |position=Pitcher |image=Lou Marone.JPG |caption= |bats=Right |throws=Left |birth_date={{Birth date|1945|12|3}} |birth_place=San Diego, California, U.S. |death_date={{Death date and age|2015|11|27|1945|12|3}} |death_place=San Diego, California, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=May 30 |debutyear=1969 |debutteam=Pittsburgh Pirates |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=April 18 |finalyear=1970 |finalteam=Pittsburgh Pirates |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Win–loss record |stat1value=1–1 |stat2label=Earned run average |stat2value=2.63 |stat3label=Innings pitched |stat3value=37{{fraction|2|3}} |stat4label=Strikeouts |stat4value=25 |teams= *Pittsburgh Pirates ({{baseball year|1969}}–{{baseball year|1970}}) }} '''Louis Stephen Marone''' (December 3, 1945 – November 27, 2015<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20161201082228/https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BaseballNecrology/conversations/messages/9090 Baseball Necrology]</ref>) was an American professional baseball player, a left-handed relief pitcher who appeared in 30 Major League Baseball games as a member of the 1969–1970 Pittsburgh Pirates. He was the cousin of former major league pitcher John D'Acquisto.<ref>Siegel, Barry, ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=9YmBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22lou+marone%22 ''Official Baseball Register'']. St. Louis, Mo. : Sporting News, 1983. p. 103. {{ISBN|9780892041107}}.</ref>
==Career== Selected by Pittsburgh in the 30th round of the 1965 Major League Baseball draft,<ref>[http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/M/Pmarol101.htm Retrosheet]</ref> the {{convert|5|ft|10|in|abbr=on}}, {{convert|185|lb|abbr=on}} Marone attended San Diego City College and San Diego Mesa College.<ref>Marcin, Joe, ed., ''The Baseball Register.'' St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1970, pp. 206–207</ref>
Marone was recalled by the Pirates in May 1969, his fifth professional season, after a strong early season for the Double-A York Pirates, where he won two of three decisions and posted six saves and an earned run average of 0.93 in 17 games and 29 innings pitched, all in relief.<ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=marone001lou Minor league record from Baseball Reference]</ref> As a Pittsburgh rookie, he appeared in 29 games allowing 24 hits and 13 bases on balls in 34{{fraction|1|3}} innings. Of the ten earned runs Marone allowed in 1969, six came in two rough outings against the St. Louis Cardinals.<ref>[http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1969/Kmarol1010011969.htm 1969 pitching log from Retrosheet]</ref> One final appearance in early 1970, also against the Cardinals, concluded his MLB career. Altogether he split his two decisions, and gave up 26 hits in 37{{fraction|2|3}} innings during his big league career, with 25 strikeouts and no saves.
Marone's eight-year pro career concluded in minor league baseball, in the Pirates' organization, in 1972.
Marone was married in 1972 to Jill Patrick of Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada. He is survived by his loving wife, Jill and his four children, Andrea Marone, Brandie Marone, Carrie Kavan (nee Marone) and Eric Marone and his four grandchildren, Alexa Hall, Penelope Kavan, Genevieve Kavan, and Louie Cash Marone.
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==Further reading== * Musick, Phil. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1mkbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NVAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7105%2C2030412 "The Sound of Musick: Marone's Stage"]. ''The Pittsburgh Press''. August 19, 1969. * Feeney, Charley. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FNoqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0mwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4783%2C3728382&dq=feeney-shorties "Roamin' Around: Some Shorties"]. ''The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''. April 24, 1970. * Smizik, Bob. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CTkcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3lkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6020%2C5043142 "Marone: It's Now Or Never; Making Pitch To Be Buc"]. ''The Pittsburgh Press''. September 26, 1972.
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