:Murray Wall (baseball)

{{Short description|American baseball player (1926–1971)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Murray Wall

|position=Pitcher

|image=

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1926|9|19}}

|birth_place=Dallas, Texas, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1971|10|8|1926|9|19}}

|death_place=Lone Oak, Texas, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=July 4

|debutyear=1950

|debutteam=Boston Braves

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=July 25

|finalyear=1959

|finalteam=Boston Red Sox

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=13–14

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=4.20

|stat3label=Innings

|stat3value=193

|teams=

• Boston Braves (1950)
• Boston Red Sox (1957–1959)
• Washington Senators (1959)

}}Murray Wesley Wall (September 19, 1926 – October 8, 1971) was born to George Wesley Wall and Mary Mae Havens and was an American middle relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played between the {{Baseball year|1950}} and {{Baseball year|1959}} seasons for the Boston Braves (1950), Boston Red Sox (1957–59) and Washington Senators (1959). Listed at {{convert|6|ft|3|in}}, {{convert|185|lb}}, Wall batted and threw right-handed. A native of Dallas, he was signed by the Braves in 1950 as a free agent out of the University of Texas at Austin.

In a four-season career, Murray posted a 13–14 record with a 4.20 ERA and 13 saves in 91 appearances (one start), including 82 strikeouts, 63 walks, and 193.0 innings pitched. In his last MLB season, {{baseball year|1959}}, Wall was traded by Boston to the Washington Senators on June 11 in a four-player deal that included Senator pitcher Dick Hyde. He appeared in one game for Washington before being returned to the Red Sox on June 14 when Hyde's sore arm voided the Wall-for-Hyde portion of the transaction.{{cite web |title=Murray Wall |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wallmu01.shtml |website=Baseball Reference |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=June 27, 2022}}

Murray committed suicide by gunshot on his farm near Lone Oak, Texas at the age of 45.{{Cite news |date=October 9, 1971 |title=Murray Wall, Former Big League Pitcher, Dies of Gunshot Wound |page=9 |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108113540/fort-worth-star-telegram/}}