Galen Cisco

Galen Cisco
Pitcher
Born: March 7, 1936 St. Marys, Ohio
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
June 11, 1961, for the Boston Red Sox
Last MLB appearance
September 7, 1969, for the Kansas City Royals
MLB statistics
Win–loss record	25–56
Earned run average	4.56
Innings pitched	659
Teams
Boston Red Sox (1961–1962) New York Mets (1962–1965) Boston Red Sox (1967) Kansas City Royals (1969)

Galen Bernard Cisco (born March 7, 1936) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three different teams between 1961 and 1969. Listed at 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and 200 pounds (91 kg), Cisco batted and threw right-handed. He was signed by the Boston Red Sox in 1958 out of Ohio State University.

A two-sport star, Cisco earned All-America and All-Big Ten honors and was a captain on the 1957 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, which won the national championship with a 9–1 record, playing both fullback and linebacker. As a pitcher for the Buckeyes, he compiled a career record of 12–2.

A curveball specialist, Cisco entered the Majors in 1961 with the Boston Red Sox, playing a little over a season for before the New York Mets acquired him via waivers on September 6, 1962.^[1] The 1962 Mets ended up with a record of 40–120, still the record for most losses by a Major League Baseball team in a single season.

He returned to the Red Sox for part of the 1967 season, then was acquired by the expansion Kansas City Royals, where he finished his active MLB career in 1969. In a seven-season career, he posted a 25–56 record with a 4.56 ERA in 192 appearances, including 78 starts, nine complete games, three shutouts, two saves, and a 1.16 strikeout-to-walk ratio (325-to-281).

Following his playing retirement, Cisco became a pitching coach for the Royals, Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies, serving for all or parts of 28 years. He spent six seasons with the Blue Jays (from 1990 to 1995), helping his team to win three consecutive American League East Division titles (1991–93) and two World Series (1992–93). Under his guidance, Paul Byrd, Robert Person and Randy Wolf developed as starters with the Phillies (from 1997 to 2000).

Cisco resides in Celina, Ohio.^[2]

Awards and recognitions

• In 1995, Cisco was elected to the Ohio State Athletic Hall of Fame as a football and baseball player.
• The St. Marys Rotary Club annually sponsors the presentation of the Galen Cisco Award. To be eligible for the award, a baseball player must be twelve years old (the last year of Little League eligibility), and voted by his teammates to be Team Most Valuable Player.

See also

• List of Ohio State University people

References

1. Mets purchase two pitchers
2. Galen Cisco at SABR Baseball Biography Project

External links

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
• Baseball Library
• Retrosheet
• The Galen Cisco Award