Frank Barnes (St. Louis Cardinals pitcher)

Infobox MLB retired
bgcolor1=black
bgcolor2=red
textcolor1=white
textcolor2=black
name=Frank Barnes
position=Pitcher
birthdate =birth date and age|1926|8|26
city-state|Longwood|Mississippi
bats=Right
throws=Right
debutdate=September 22
debutyear=1957
debutteam=St. Louis Cardinals
finaldate=May 14
finalyear=1960
finalteam=St. Louis Cardinals
stat1label=Innings
stat1value=36 ⅔
stat2label=Strikeouts
stat2value=30
stat3label=E.R.A.
stat3value=5.89
teams=
*St. Louis Cardinals (1957–60)
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Frank Barnes (born August 26, 1926) is a retired American Major League Baseball pitcher and occasional pinch runner who played three seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League. Barnes played professional baseball for 16 seasons starting with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro Leagues at age 18 in 1947 and ending in the Mexican League in 1965.

Transaction history

Born in city-state|Longwood|Mississippi, Barnes was acquired by the New York Yankees from the Kansas City Monarchs in 1950. He was sold to the Yankees along with Elston Howard. Howard later became the first African-American member of the Yankees. Barnes' rights were sent by the Yankees to the St. Louis Browns during the 1951 season. Before the 1953, the Browns returned him to the Toronto Maple Leafs after expiration of minor league working agreement. After the 1956 season he was traded by Toronto to the St. Louis Cardinals for Jim Pearce, cash and a player to be named later, which turned out to be Rocky Nelson. He played in the Major Leagues for the Cardinals in by|1957, by|1958, and by|1960. On May 19, 1960, the Chicago White Sox purchased Barnes from the St. Louis Cardinals. After the By|1961 season, he was traded by the White Sox with Andy Carey to the Philadelphia Phillies for Bob Sadowski and Taylor Phillips. However, Carey refused to report to his new team before the By|1962 season. Thus, to complete the trade the White Sox sent Cal McLish to Philadelphia and the Phillies sent Lou Vassie to Chicago.cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/barnefr02.shtml|title=Frank Barnes |accessdate=2008-08-27|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com] During the 1950s, he played in the Eastern League, Texas League and American Association in Minor League Baseball.

After his Major League Baseball career Barnes played in the Mexican Summer League, Liga Mexicana de Beisbol. In 1965, he led the league in both winning percentage 13–5, .722 and in E.R.A. at 1.58. [cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YXg4bi3Rg68C&pg=RA1-PA426&lpg=RA1-PA426&dq=Frank+Barnes+Mexico+baseball&source=web&ots=QroQkf1qTA&sig=TQKcH3bgdPCRUy-Pe81rT2zQbe0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PRA1-PA426,M1|title=Baseball with a Latin Beat|author=Bjarkman, Peter C.|publisher=McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers on Google books]

tats

In 1957, he led the American Association with a 2.41 E.R.A. for the Omaha Cardinals before being called up to St. Louis in September. [cite web|url=http://marian.creighton.edu/~besser/baseball/aa1957.html|title=Nebraska Minor League Baseball: American Association: Omaha Cardinals 1957|accessdate=2008-08-28] He also led the league with six shutouts and pitched a record-setting 41⅓ consecutive scoreless innings.cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=i7IIbRbL-nwC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=Frank+Barnes+Omaha&source=web&ots=4yGVHZAuTp&sig=SzW4aGqd7-RNqiCT6OYm43CdBSI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result|title=Crossing the Line|accessdate=2008-08-28|author=Moffi, Larry and Jonathan Kronstadt|publisher=McFarland & Company] On August 4, 1958, he pitched the first no-hitter in Omaha Cardinal American Association history. [cite web|url=http://marian.creighton.edu/~besser/baseball/aa1958.html|title=Nebraska Minor League Baseball: American Association: 1958|accessdate=2008-08-28] It was not the first no-hitter for Barnes who had pitched one for the Oklahoma City of the Texas League in 1955.

Barnes posted a 1–3 record with 1 save over the course of three seasons with the Cardinals. He accumulated 30 strikeouts in 36⅔ innings pitched. During his career, Barnes scored three runs despite only having one hit in ten career at bats and having no walks, no hit by pitches and one caught stealing. Also, over the course of his career he had a 2.84 Earned run average in games on the road, but only a 9.17 E.R.A. at home in Sportsman's Park.cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/psplit.cgi?n1=barnefr02&year=c|title=Frank Barnes Career Pitching Splits|accessdate=2008-08-27|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com] Barnes appeared as a pinch runner several times in 1957 and 1958.cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/gl.cgi?n1=barnefr02&year=1957&t=b|title=Frank Barnes 1957 Batting Gamelogs|accessdate=2008-08-27|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com] cite web|url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/gl.cgi?n1=barnefr02&year=1958&t=b|title=Frank Barnes 1958 Batting Gamelogs|accessdate=2008-08-27|publisher=Sports Reference, LLC|work=Baseball-Reference.com]

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