"Pat Dobson joined the Yankees last June in a trade with Atlanta and went on to win nine games for New York, which included some of the best ball he's ever pitched.
And Pat has pitched some mighty fine baseball, highlighted by his 1971 season at Baltimore, when he joined Mike Cuellar, Dave McNally and Jim Palmer to give the Orioles the first four-man 20-wins-each staff since 1920.
Pat, a member of the 1972 American League All-Star team, usually has success follow him. He broke in with Detroit and played on their 1968 pennant winning club ... then was present on the '71 Oriole champions. In between, he also saw a year's service with San Diego.
Dobson's arm is one of the better ones in the game, and he still has a lot of pitches to fire with it. While he's wearing the Yankee uniform, it would be nice if his habit of participating on pennant winners held true again."
-The New York Yankees Official 1974 Yearbook
"Pat is in his third tour of duty in the American League, having begun his career with Detroit, moving to San Diego, returning with Baltimore, off to Atlanta and returning again last June with the Yankees in a widely heralded trade.
Pat went on to win nine games for the Yankees, and it would have been ten but he had a no-decision in what have may have been the best game of his career - July 26 vs. Milwaukee, in which he hurled a 5-hit shutout for 11 innings, leaving a 0-0 tie in which the Yankees won 1-0 in the 12th. Pat also pitched a 2-hitter while with San Diego, and the only no-hitter ever pitched by an American in Japan, when the Orioles toured there in 1971.
His Oriole days were his big ones, and 1971 his big season, as he was 20-8 and joined Palmer, Cuellar and McNally to give the Orioles the first four-man 20-game-winner staff since 1920. A member of the 1972 All-Star team, Pat was traded to the Braves after the '72 season, and after a bad start in Atlanta, he seemed to have regained his form with the Yankees.
Pat attended Lancaster (N.Y.) High School, then signed with Detroit and spent seven years in the minors. He was a member of the Tigers from 1967-69, pitching mostly in relief on the '68 World Championship club."
-1974 New York Yankees Press/TV/Radio Guide
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