Jerry Casale

Gennaro Joseph "Jerry" Casale (September 27, 1933 – February 9, 2019) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three teams between 1958 and 1962.

Of those nine players, only Casale, Marty Keough, and Jerry Zimmerman made it to the major leagues.

[1] Casale in the minor leagues once hit a 560-foot home run while with the San Francisco Seals.

[5] His most productive season in the major leagues came in 1959 with Boston, when he recorded career-highs in wins (13), strikeouts (93), earned run average (ERA) (4.31), complete games (9), innings pitched (1792⁄3), and collected two three-hit shutouts against the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians.

He opened a restaurant in Manhattan called Murray's with former New York Mets players Art Shamsky and Ron Darling, and later opened an Italian restaurant called Pino's on 34th Street in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan.