Researching George Witt
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1194 people with the Witt surname? In that year Witt was ranked number 2418 for popularity in the UK. |
The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
Records of George Witt on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for George Witt and the Witt Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 1647 people with the Witt surname in the UK? Witt is now ranked number 2582 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 39497 people with the Witt surname in the USA? Witt is ranked number 144 for popularity in the USA. |
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George Witt (baseball)
George Adrian "Red" Witt (November 9, 1931 – January 30, 2013), was an American professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher who played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball (1957–62) with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Angels and Houston Colt .45s. The native of Long Beach, California, stood tall and weighed during his playing career. He graduated from California State University, Long Beach.
Witt began his baseball career in 1950 as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers' organization and was drafted by the Pirates from Brooklyn following the 1954 season. In 1957, he won 18 games (losing seven) for the top-level Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League, then had notable back-to-back seasons for the Pirates in 1958–59. In, he helped pitch Pittsburgh to a first division finish and the club's first winning season in a decade with a 9–2 record and a sparkling 1.61 earned run average in 18 games pitched and 15 starting assignments. He threw five complete games and three shutouts. But in, hampered by a sore elbow, he worked in only 15 games and lost all of his seven decisions. He spent part of back in minor league baseball.
But he also appeared in ten games (with six starts) for the 1960 National League and World Series champion Pirates. He made three relief appearances in the World Series, which was marked by three lopsided New York Yankees victories and four close Pittsburgh triumphs. Witt appeared in the Yankee routs, Games 2, 3 and 6, and although he was not charged with allowing any runs in 2 innings pitched, he permitted four inherited baserunners to score. Witt played three more seasons, splitting and between minor league service and big-league trials with the Pirates, Angels and Colt .45s.
For his MLB career he compiled an 11–16 record with a 4.32 earned run average and 156 strikeouts in 66 appearances and 229 total innings pitched; he allowed 225 hits and 127 bases on balls, and recorded no shutouts or complete games after 1958.
Witt was a high school physical education instructor, a science teacher, and a baseball and tennis coach at Tustin High School in Tustin, California, as well as a former Foreign Study League group leader, where he led high school students through a number of European foreign capitals comparing different governmental systems.
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