Win Remmerswaal

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Contents 1 Overall Career 2 Remmerswaal's Moment in the Sun 3 Trivia 4 Transactions 5 External Links

Overall Career

Wilhelmus Abraham Remmerswaal (born March 8, 1954 in The Hague, Holland) was a right-handed pitcher from the Netherlands who spent his two-year big-league career with the Boston Red Sox in 1979 and 1980. When an injury to his pitching arm ended his big-league career in 1980, Remmerswaal went to play in Parma, Italy.

Sadly, recent years have not been kind to Win. In 1997, suffering from an addiction to alcohol and living on the streets, Win contracted double pneumonia with pleurisy and lapsed into a coma. Even though many doctors gave up on him, Win defied the odds and awoke three weeks later with brain damage.

Today, Win is confined to a wheelchair and living in a nursing home in his native Holland. In his two-seasons with Boston, Remmerswaal compiled a 3-1 record with a 5.50 ERA in 55.2 innings pitched.

Remmerswaal's Moment in the Sun

• Remmerswaal was the first Dutch-born player to play for the Boston Red Sox. He is also the only Dutch-born player to play for the Red Sox, making him the greatest Dutch player in franchise history.

Trivia

• Famous for missing team buses, Win once infamously overslept before a game against the New York Yankees and ultimately ended up at Shea Stadium by mistake.
• Participant in Baseball's Longest Game.
• Picked up his first ML win on August 5, 1979 as the Red Sox demolish the Milwaukee Brewers 19-5 in the second game of a doubleheader. Manager Don Zimmer defies conventional wisdom by using a hodgepodge of relievers to pitch the game.
• Was the first Dutch-born and raised player to reach the Major Leagues.
• According to Mike Tamburro, President of the Pawtucket Red Sox, Win was the most colorful PawSox player in franchise history.

Transactions

• November 22, 1974: Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent.

External Links

• Baseball-Reference.com - Career Statistics and Analysis