Howie Koplitz, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators), died he was 73.

Howard Dean Koplitz  was a pitcher in Major League Baseball pitcher  died he was 73.. He played all or part of five seasons in the majors, between 1961 and 1966, for the Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators.

(May 4, 1938 – January 2, 2012)

Koplitz went 9–7 with a 4.21 earned-run average over his career. In his first game in the Major Leagues, the first player he faced was future Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, whom he struck out.^[1]


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