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He was born in San Francisco, California . He played his first major league game on , 1956 , 1957 , 1958 , and 1959 . On May 7 , 1957 , McDougald, batting against Herb Score of the Cleveland Indians , hit a line drive that hit Score in the eye. It caused Score to miss the rest of the 1957 and much of the 1958 season, and Score was never again the outstanding pitcher he had been up to that event. McDougald reportedly vowed at the time of the incident to retire if Score was blinded. In 1958 , McDougald was given the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award, which is awarded annually by the Phi Delta Theta fraternity (to which Gehrig belonged) at Columbia University . In 1961 he was selected by the Washington Senators (now the Texas Rangers ) in the Expansion Draft . Rather than play for that team, he retired. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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