Pat McGlothin

Ezra Malachi McGlothin

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 6' 3½", Weight 180 lb.
• School University of Tennessee
• High School Central High School (Knoxville)
• Debut April 25, 1949
• Final Game April 18, 1950
• Born October 20, 1920 in Coalfield, TN USA
• Died October 24, 2014 in Knoxville, TN USA

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Biographical Information

Pat McGlothin was a right-hander out of the University of Tennessee who came to be called Pat because of his Irish descent. Born Ezra Malachi McGlothin, he first took to the mound with the class D Elizabethton Betsy Red Sox of the Appalachian League as a 21-year-old unattached free agent in 1942. His first year in the pros saw him win 10 and lose 9 with a 2.97 ERA. Before anything else could happen Pat would spend the next three years (1943-1945) in the United States Navy during World War II.

On his return from the service, McGlothin was obtained by the Brooklyn Dodgers from the Mobile Bears of the Southern Association before the 1946 season as part of a minor league working agreement. Pat had three excellent seasons from 1946 to 1948 with Mobile and the St. Paul Saints of the American Association, winning 43 games and losing only 24 over the three-year span. Pat's showing earned him short trials in Brooklyn in 1949 and 1950, splitting a pair of decisions; he made his major league debut in a relief role against the Philadelphia Phillies at Shibe Park on Opening Day in 1949 and pitched 8 games overall. This would be the extent of Pat's major league run, finishing at 1-1 with a 5.60 ERA.

McGlothin left baseball in 1954, after spending three seasons with St. Paul (1951-1953) and winding up his minor league run in 1954 with the Birmingham Barons and the Knoxville Smokies. Overall, he had spent 10 active seasons in the minors, finishing with a 108-76 record with a 3.80 ERA while appearing in 292 games. Pat talked about a game he pitched in the Navy in 1942. "It was an All-Star game at the naval air station in Corpus Christi, TX, against a team with Ted Williams in the lineup from the Pensacola, FL, naval air station. The game went 19 innings and I pitched the whole game and drove in the winning run. I faced Williams nine times and he was 0 for 7 and I walked him twice."

After leaving baseball in 1954 McGlothin went into the insurance business. He eventually became the CEO of a mutual agency while his son was the president. McGlothin was inducted into the Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame on August 14, 1999.

Sources

Baseball Players of the 1950s

Related Sites

• BR Minors page
• Find-A-Grave Memorial for Pat McGlothin