Don Rowe

{{short description|American baseball player (1936-2005)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Don Rowe

|position=Pitcher

|image=Don Rowe 1957 Hollywood Stars.jpg

|caption=Rowe with the Hollywood Stars {{circa}} 1957

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date|1936|4|3}}

|birth_place=Brawley, California, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|2005|10|15|1936|4|3}}

|death_place=Newport Beach, California, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate= April 9

|debutyear= 1963

|debutteam=New York Mets

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=July 18

|finalyear=1963

|finalteam=New York Mets

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=0–0

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=4.28

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=27

|teams=

• New York Mets ({{baseball year|1963}})

}}

Donald Howard Rowe (April 3, 1936 – October 15, 2005) was an American player and pitching coach in professional baseball. A left-handed pitcher, Rowe had a 14-year professional career and spent only one partial season in Major League Baseball as a member of the {{BY|1963}} New York Mets.{{cite web |url=http://www.fanbase.com/Don-Rowe |title=Don Rowe athletic career, photos, articles, and videos | Fanbase |accessdate=2009-09-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204010420/http://www.fanbase.com/Don-Rowe |archivedate=2014-12-04 }} He threw 54 2/3 innings of major league ball, the most-ever by a pitcher who never recorded a win, loss or a save.

Rowe was a native of Brawley, California, and attended Long Beach State University. He originally signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1954, and in his tenth pro season, he debuted with the Mets on April 9, 1963. His final appearance was on July 18, 1963. After retiring from playing, Rowe became the pitching coach for the Chicago White Sox in 1988 (although he was forced to step aside because of ill health in June)[https://www.chicagotribune.com/1988/06/14/health-problems-have-forced-pitching-coach-don/ The Chicago Tribune, June 14, 1988] and the Milwaukee Brewers from 1992 to 1998, and worked as a pitching coach in the farm systems of the California Angels, San Francisco Giants, White Sox and Brewers. He also coached football, baseball and tennis at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California.

Rowe died from Parkinson's disease in Newport Beach, California, at the age of 69.