Don Durham

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1949)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Don Durham

|image=

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1949|3|21}}

|birth_place=Yosemite, Kentucky, U.S.

|death_date=

|death_place=

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=July 16

|debutyear=1972

|debutteam=St. Louis Cardinals

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 29

|finalyear=1973

|finalteam=Texas Rangers

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=2–11

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=5.83

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=58

|teams=

• St. Louis Cardinals ({{by|1972}})
• Texas Rangers ({{by|1973}})

}}

Donald Gary Durham (born March 21, 1949) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers.{{cite web|title=Don Durham Statistics and History|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/durhado01.shtml|website=baseball-reference.com|publisher=sports-reference.com|accessdate=February 10, 2011}}

Born in Yosemite, Kentucky, Durham attended Western Kentucky University and was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 7th round of the 1970 MLB Draft.

Durham holds the MLB record for most at-bats for a player who hit .500 or better in a career as he collected 7 hits in 14 career at-bats for an even .500 batting average.{{cn|date=March 2024}}

After his baseball career ended, Durham worked as president of an auto body shop in Nashville. He established the Don Durham Baseball Scholarship Fund to serve Western Kentucky Hilltoppers baseball players.{{cite web |title=Don Durham - Western Kentucky University Scholarships |url=https://wku.academicworks.com/donors/don-durham |publisher=Western Kentucky University |access-date=25 March 2024}}