Dave Baldwin (baseball player)
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Dave Baldwin was a major league baseball pitcher, born in Tucson, Arizona, on March 30, 1938. He was a right-handed, sidearm relief specialist for the Washington Senators (1966-69), Milwaukee Brewers (1970), and Chicago White Sox (1973). In 176 games he compiled a record of 6 wins and 11 loses, with 22 saves and an ERA of 3.08. After his 16 year professional baseball career ended in 1974 he earned a Ph.D. in genetics and an M.S. in systems engineering from the University of Arizona. He worked as a geneticist, engineer, and artist until his retirement in 2003. Subsequently, he has collaborated with other researchers studying the physics, physiology, and psychology of baseball. In addition, he has published numerous poems under the pen name "DGB Featherkile." Baldwin's painting "Fugue for the Pepper Players" is in the collection of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, and was featured in "Treasures of the Baseball Hall of Fame" by John Thorn (1998) pp. 188-189.
Selected Publications:
Bahill, A.T. & Baldwin, D.G. (2004) “The rising fastball and other perceptual illusions of batters.” In Biomedical Engineering Principles in Sports. G.K. Hung and J.M. Pallis, eds. NY: Kluwer Academic / Plenum. pp. 257-287.
Bahill, A.T., Baldwin, D.G., & Venkateswaran, J. “Predicting a baseball’s path,” American Scientist, May-June 2005, pp. 218-225.
Baldwin, D. (2008) Snake Jazz. Philadelphia: Xlibris.
Baldwin, D.G. “How to win the blame game,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 2001, pp, 55-62.
Baldwin, D.G. and Bahill, A.T. "A model of the bat’s vertical sweetness gradient." In The Engineering of Sport (5). M. Hubbard, R.D. Mehta, and J.M. Pallis, eds. Proceedings of the 5th International Engineering of Sport Conference, September 13–16, 2004, Davis, CA, International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA), Sheffield, UK, Vol. 2, pp. 305–311.
Baldwin, D.G., Bahill, A.T., and Nathan, A. "Nickel and dime pitches," Baseball Research Journal, 2007, pp. 25-29.
Mangan, R.L. and Baldwin, D. (1986) "A new cryptic species of Odontoloxozus (Neriidae: Diptera) from the cape region of Baja California Sur (Mexico)." Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington (D.C.). 88:110-121.
Selected Solo Art Exhibits:
R. Howard Dobbs University Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (Nov. 1997).
Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (Jan.-Feb. 1998).
Randall L. Jones Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT (June-Aug. 1998).
Sources:
Cohen, J., “A Hall of Fame career,” Sports Illustrated, Aug. 12, 1996.
Mirsky, S., “Fields of dreams,” Scientific American, May 2000, p. 122.
Shecter, L., “A side-door entrance to the major leagues,” Sports Illustrated, July 17, 1967, pp. 61-66.
Thorn, J. & Palmer, P., eds. (1989) Total Baseball. NY: Warner Books. p. 1585.
