Dick Starr

Richard Eugene Starr (March 2, 1921 – January 18, 2017) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.

Starr also pitched in the Venezuelan Winter League with the Caracas Lions (1952–53) and Magellan's Navigators (1953–54) and in the 1953 Caribbean Series.

Over five major league seasons, Starr posted a 12–24 record with 120 strikeouts and a 5.25 ERA in 93 appearances, including 45 starts, seven complete games, two shutouts, two saves, and 344⅔ innings of work.

After his playing career ended, Starr was employed in the production control department for the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation.

Starr died on January 18, 2017, in Kittanning, Pennsylvania at the Armstrong County Health Center where he and his wife resided, the same town in which he was born.