Background
Remmerswaal was born in The Hague, Netherlands.
Remmerswaal was born in The Hague, Netherlands.
He batted and threw right-handed. Remmerswaal was signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1974 and made his major league debut in 1979. In a total of fifty-five and two-thirds innings of work, all in relief, Remmserswaal compiled a 3–1 record with 36 strikeouts and a 5.50 earned run average.
In total, Remmerswaal pitched in 22 games over two seasons with Boston, making his final Major League appearance on October 5, 1980.
Following his major league career, Remmerswaal played one season of Triple-A ball before spending five years pitching in Italy. In 1997, Remmerswaal lapsed into a coma after contracting double pneumonia with pleurisy.
He currently lives in a nursing home in the Netherlands. Remmerswaal was the second Dutch-born Major League Baseball player of the modern (post-1900) era, with Bert Blyleven being the first.
Blyleven, however, grew up and learned the game in California, so Remmerswaal qualifies as the first European-trained player to reach the Major Leagues.