[1] In his major league debut on June 20, 1969, Edmondson pitched a complete game two-hitter in a 9–1 White Sox victory over the California Angels.

He had the second-best earned run average (3.70) of any of the six White Sox pitchers who started ten or more games during the 1969 season.

Some of Paul Edmondson's efforts in 1969: While traveling south on rain-soaked U.S. Route 101 near Santa Barbara, California on February 13, 1970, the day after his 27th birthday, his automobile skidded and crashed into oncoming northbound traffic, killing Edmondson and his passenger, Lauraine Leas, 22, of Simi Valley, California.

They had traveled from Simi to San Luis Obispo where Lauraine would be attending Cal Poly the following semester.

The tragedy occurred only two weeks prior to spring training, and the White Sox had hoped that Edmondson would become the fourth starter in the rotation.