Michael Edward Hartley is a former Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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 right-handed pitcher

Pitcher

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. He is an alumnus of East Carolina University

East Carolina University

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Signed as an amateur free agent by the St. Louis Cardinals

St. Louis Cardinals

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 in 1981, Hartley would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers

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 on September 10, 1989, and appear in his final game on September 24, 1995. In 1994, he pitched in Japan for the Chiba Lotte Marines

Chiba Lotte Marines

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From -, Hartley was an assistant and pitching coach for the independent Reno Silver Sox

Reno Silver Sox

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. In , he was the head coach and a pitcher for the Heidenheim Heideköpfe a German first league team.

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