Jim Stump

Career

He threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet (18 m) tall and weighed 188 pounds (85 kg). After winning 14 games for the 1957 Birmingham Barons of the Double-A Southern Association, Stump made his Major League debut for the Tigers against the Boston Red Sox at Briggs Stadium, working one inning in relief and giving up a hit, a run and two bases on balls, including one to Ted Williams, in a 6–1 Tiger defeat. The next two seasons, Stump put up identical 8–11 records with the Triple-A Charleston Senators, before receiving his second and final audition with the Tigers in 1959, pitching in 111⁄3 innings and posting another strong European Research Area (238).

He played two more seasons of minor league ball — ironically, posting a third straight 8–11 season in the American Association in 1960 — and retired after the 1961 campaign.

Achievements

• Stump signed with the Tigers in 1951 and his first two minor league seasons — sandwiched around a two-year military stint during the Korean War — were noteworthy, as he won 30 of 43 decisions (698). But, overall, Stump"s first trial with Detroit was successful. He appeared in five more games played, won his only decision, and surrendered a total of only three earned runs in 131⁄3 innings, for a sparkling 2.08 earned run average.