Doug McWeeny

{{Short description|American baseball player (1896–1953)}}

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{{Refimprove|date=July 2017}}{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Doug McWeeny

|position=Pitcher

|image=...)eny, Chi(cago), 1924 LOC npcc.11553 (cropped).jpg

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1896|8|17}}

|birth_place=Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1953|1|1|1896|8|17}}

|death_place=Melrose Park, Illinois, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate= April 24

|debutyear= 1921

|debutteam= Chicago White Sox

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=June 17

|finalyear=1930

|finalteam= Cincinnati Reds

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=37–57

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=4.17

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=386

|teams=

• Chicago White Sox (1921–1924)
• Brooklyn Robins (1926–1929)
• Cincinnati Reds (1930)

}}

Douglas Lawrence McWeeny (August 17, 1896 – January 1, 1953) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched from 1921–1930.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12706101/clipped_to_use_as_a_citation_in/|title=Doug McWeeny Services Are Held Monday|last=|date=3 January 1953|work=The DeKalb Daily Chronicle|access-date=28 July 2017|via=Newspapers.com}} He pitched right-handed. {{cite news |author= |title=Five Rookies Looking Good |url= https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1921-03-12/ed-1/seq-11/|work=The Washington Times |location=Washington, DC |date=March 12, 1921 |access-date=June 25, 2019 }}

McWeeny made his big-league debut on April 24, 1921, and won three games for the Chicago White Sox that season. His best year came in 1928 with the Brooklyn Robins, with a 14-14 record that included a National League-best four shutouts. He also led the NL in walks that season (114), and had a league-worst 11 wild pitches in 1929, a year before his career came to an end.

Nicknamed Buzz, McWeeny worked as a service station attendant in the off-season. {{cite book |last=Hamann |first=Rex |date=2015 |title=The Minneapolis Millers of the American Association |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=woy6BwAAQBAJ&q=doug+mcweeny&pg=PA50 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |page=128 |isbn=978-1439650639 }}