Ray Newman (baseball)

{{Short description|American baseball player (born 1945)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Ray Newman

|position=Pitcher

|image=

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1945|6|20}}

|birth_place=Evansville, Indiana

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 16

|debutyear=1971

|debutteam=Chicago Cubs

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 24

|finalyear=1973

|finalteam=Milwaukee Brewers

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=3–3

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=2.97

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=46

|teams=

• Chicago Cubs ({{baseball year|1971}})
• Milwaukee Brewers ({{baseball year|1972}}–{{baseball year|1973}})

}}

Raymond Francis Newman (born June 20, 1945) is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in 1971 and the Milwaukee Brewers in 1972 to 1973.

He saw limited action in his brief career, usually as a reliever. He became known for riding a bicycle to Wrigley Field. On one occasion, he was struck by a driver and was unable to pitch that day due to the mishap. Cubs manager Leo Durocher was not amused, and Newman was traded by the next spring. Durocher, talking about his team that year, referred to "this nut who used to ride a bicycle to the ballpark."{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}

Newman was traded from the Brewers to the Detroit Tigers for Mike Strahler at the Winter Meetings on December 6, 1973.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=19731207&id=uk0iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=k6wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=998,3299850 Rappoport, Ken. "National League Tentatively Agrees to Move Padres to Washington, D.C." The Associated Press (AP), Friday, December 7, 1973.] Retrieved December 23, 2022.