Rudy May, former Yankees star pitcher, dead at 80

Former New York Yankees pitcher and ERA champion Rudy May died connected Saturday. He was 80.

May pitched 16 seasons successful the big leagues, spending clip with 4 antithetic teams. He had 2 abstracted stints with the Yankees and spent 7 seasons with the California Angels, 2 seasons with the Montreal Expos and 2 with the Baltimore Orioles. 

An obituary for May was seen successful the Daily Advance successful North Carolina.

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Rudy May, #45 of the New York, Yankees pitches during an Major League Baseball crippled circa 1981 astatine Yankee Stadium successful the Bronx borough of New York City. May played for the Yankees from 1974 to 76 and 1980 to 83.  (Focus connected Sport/Getty Images)

Montreal Expos historiographer Danny Gallagher posted connected X that Mays had told him years agone that helium had been suffering from diabetes for a agelong time. 

Over his 16 seasons successful Major League Baseball, May was 152-156 with a 3.46 ERA crossed 535 games, with 360 of those being starts. 

Mayplayed his archetypal play with the Angels successful 1965 arsenic a 20-year-old and had a 3.92 ERA implicit 124 innings of work. However, owed to injuries helium suffered that season, helium did not look successful the large leagues again until 1969. 

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Rudy May, #43 of the Baltimore Orioles, pitches against the New York Yankees during an Major League Baseball crippled circa 1977 astatine Yankee Stadium successful the Bronx borough of New York City. May played for the Orioles from 1976 to 77.  (Focus connected Sport/Getty Images)

May was with the Angels from 1969-1974, erstwhile helium was traded successful the mediate of the play to the Yankees. 

His archetypal stint with the Yankees began astatine the commercialized deadline successful 1974 and ended successful 1976, erstwhile helium was traded to the Orioles astatine the deadline. After the 1977 season, May joined the Expos for 2 seasons earlier the Yankees brought him backmost for a 2nd stint successful 1980.

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Rudy May, #45 of the New York Yankees, pitches during a Major League Baseball crippled circa 1981 astatine Yankee Stadium successful the Bronx borough of New York City. May played for the Yankees from 1974 to 76 and 1980 to 83.  (Focus connected Sport/Getty Images)

May had the champion twelvemonth of his vocation with the Yankees successful 1980, winning the ERA rubric with a 2.46 ERA crossed 175.1 innings of work. He spent the remainder of his vocation with the Yankees earlier retiring successful 1983. 

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