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Dave Baldwin was a right-handed, sidearm/submarine major league baseball pitcher. Born in Tucson, Arizona, on March 30, 1938, he pitched for three years for the University of Arizona. In the 1959 College World Series he beat Fresno State 5 to 1 on a two-hitter and lost the final game of the series 5 to 3 to Oklahoma State. He signed with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1959 and pitched on three pennant winners in his first four years of pro ball. Later, he was a 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. He did not commit an error during his six-year major league career and committed only three errors throughout the 16 years he played professional baseball. On April 27th, 1968, he was credited a save in a game in which he neither faced a batter, nor recorded an out. The game was called because of rain before he could face a batter.

After he retired from baseball 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 in such journals as Atlanta Review, Blue Unicorn, and Evansville Review 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. (2007) “Describing baseball pitch movement with right-hand rules," Computers in Biology and Medicine, 37:1001-1008.
• 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. (2005) “Predicting a baseball’s path,” American Scientist, 93(3):218-225.
• Baldwin, D. (2008) Snake Jazz. Philadelphia: Xlibris.
• Baldwin, D.G. (2001) “How to win the blame game,” Harvard Business Review, 79(7):55-62.
• Baldwin, D.G. and Bahill, A.T. (2004) "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, 2:305–311.
• Baldwin, D.G., Bahill, A.T., and Nathan, A. (2007) "Nickel and dime pitches," Baseball Research Journal, 35:25-29.
• 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.
• McBeath, M.K., Nathan, A.M., Bahill, A.T., and Baldwin, D.G. (2008) "Paradoxical pop-ups: Why are they difficult to catch?" American Journal of Physics, 76(8):723-729.

Selected Solo Art Exhibits

• Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Thousand Oaks, CA (Apr.-May 1997).
• Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR (June-July 1997).
• 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.