Curtis Cordell Barclay was an American

United States

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 professional baseball

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 player. A right-handed pitcher

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, Barclay appeared in 44 games

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 in Major League Baseball

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 for the New York/San Francisco Giants

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 between 1957–1959. In his only full season in MLB, in 1957

1957 New York Giants (MLB) season

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, he was a member of the pitching staff of the final Giants team to represent New York, working in 37 games, 28 as a starting pitcher

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, and posting a 9–9 won-lost record. His 3.44 earned run average

Earned run average

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 led Giants' starters and he pitched two shutouts

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A native of Chicago, Illinois, the 6 inch, 210 pounds (95.3 kg) Barclay signed with the Giants in 1952 after attending the University of Oregon

University of Oregon

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, where he played baseball and basketball

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. He posted 19, 16, and 15-win seasons in three seasons of minor league baseball

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, losing 11 games as well each year, before joining the Giants as a rookie

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 in 1957.

However, that would be Barclay's only full season in the Majors. Hampered by a sore shoulder, he split the 1958

1958 San Francisco Giants season

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 and 1959

1959 San Francisco Giants season

The 1959 San Francisco Giants season involved the 83-71 team's third-place finish in the National League standings, four games behind the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers...

 seasons between San Francisco and its top farm club, the Phoenix Giants, and he retired after the 1960 minor league campaign. Barclay's final Major League record was 10–9 (3.48) with 73 strikeouts and 55 bases on balls in 199⅓ innings.

He died at age 53 in Missoula, Montana

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