Steve stone biography baseball player

Born in South Euclid, Ohio, Stone was a natural athlete.

He starred on his high school baseball team, but also won several tennis championships and exceled at golf. As a pitcher at Kent State University, his battery-mate was future Yankees star Thurman Munson.

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He was selected by the San Francisco Giants in the fourth round of the amateur draft and enjoyed two successful seasons in the minors before making his major league debut on April 8, For the first nine seasons of his big league career he had a steady, but not spectacular career, bouncing from the Giants to the White Sox to the Cubs and back to the White Sox before signing as a free agent with the Baltimore Orioles and blossoming as a pitcher.

In , he went , pitched three perfect innings in the All-Star game, won the American League Cy Young Award, and finished ninth in the MVP voting. Shoulder tendinitis shorten