Primary Position: Relief pitcher
Birthplace: Gastonia
First, Middle Names: Harold Rudolph
Date of Birth: Aug. 29, 1937
Current Residence: Belmont, NC
High School: Belmont High School
College: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Bats: L Throws: L Height and Weight: 6-0, 170
Debut Year: 1960 Final Year: 1960 Years Played: 1
Team and Year: N.Y. Yankees, 1960
Career Summary
G W L Sv ERA IP SO WAR
1 0 0 0 9.00 1.0 0 0.0
Hal Stowe had real pedigree when he took the mound at Yankee Stadium for his major-league debut on that balmy September night in 1960. He was a stud, a prep and college star who had lit up the minor leagues. By all baseball forecasts, this was to be the beginning of a long and illustrious career.
As a kid in Gastonia, Stowe had pitched his American Legion Post 23 to runner up in the World Series. Those were heady days. College recruiters filled the stands when he pitched. Young Harold was considering Florida State until one Sunday afternoon when he arrived home and found coaches from Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, sitting around his kitchen table. His mother, Nellie, was dishing out country ham and eggs. No need to go way down to Florida to play ball, Fred Stowe suggested to his son. Within minutes, Hal agreed to head to South Carolina.[I]