James Leroy Brenneman was a Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

 pitcher

Pitcher

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. Brenneman played for the New York Yankees

New York Yankees

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 in the baseball season. In three career games, he had a 0-0 record, with a 18.00 ERA. He batted and threw right-handed. Brenneman was the winning pitcher for the Yankees in their 1965 Hall of Fame exhibition game against the Philadelphia Phillies

Philadelphia Phillies

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 at Doubleday Field

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 in Cooperstown.

Brenneman was born in San Diego, California

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 and died in Pearl, Mississippi

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