Richard Lee Calmus was a pitcher

Pitcher

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 in Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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. He attended Webster High School

Webster High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma)

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 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa, Oklahoma

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, where he was the Tulsa World's

Tulsa World

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Oklahoma basketball player of the year in 1962. He played baseball on the same high school team as fellow future major leaguer Carl Morton

Carl Morton

Carl Wendle Morton was a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Montreal Expos and Atlanta Braves...

 and won two state titles.

Signed as a "bonus baby" by the Los Angeles Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers

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 (and thus required to stay on the major league roster for his first season), he posted a 3-1 record and 2.66 ERA in 1963, but then developed arm trouble in the minor leagues; later traded to the Chicago Cubs

Chicago Cubs

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, he never won another game in the majors.

He is the uncle of Rocky Calmus

Rocky Calmus

Rocky Calmus is a retired American football linebacker who played for the Tennessee Titans and Indianapolis Colts. He played college football at Oklahoma, where he won the 2001 Butkus Award as the nation's top college linebacker....

, who played in the NFL

National Football League

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 after winning the Butkus Award in 2001 as a linebacker for the University of Oklahoma

Oklahoma Sooners football

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