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James Paul David Bunning (October 23, 1931 – May 26, 2017) was an American professional baseball pitcher and politician from Kentucky who served in both chambers of the United States Congress, a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1999 and a member of the United States Senate from 1999 to 2011.
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Jim Bunning, the Major League Baseball player, was born on Friday, October 23, 1931, in Southgate, Kentucky. Bunning was 23 years old when he broke into the major leagues on July 20, 1955, with the Detroit Tigers. Jim Bunning stats, height, weight, career totals, schools, positions, and more historical research are in the Baseball Almanac.
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About Jim Bunning. Jim Bunning was a tough right-handed sidearm pitcher during his 17-year big league career, but consistency was what he craved, once stating: “I am most proud of the fact I went through nearly 11 years without missing a start. They wrote my name down, and I went to the post.”
May 28, 2017 · Jim Bunning, the only baseball player ever elected both to the U.S. Senate and the Baseball Hall of Fame, died late Friday. He was 85 and, according to his family, died of...
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Bunning, elected to the Hall of Fame in 1996, died Friday at the age of 85. The former pitcher for the Tigers, Phillies, Pirates and Dodgers proved to be one of the game’s most durable and consistent pitchers during his 17-year big league career from 1955-71.
May 28, 2017 · Former U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning, a Hall of Fame pitcher who parlayed his sports fame into a political career as an uncompromising advocate for conservative causes, has died at 85.
Dec 28, 2017 · From his birth on October 23, 1931, to his death on May 26 of this year, Jim Bunning dug into the russet earth of a major- or minor-league pitcher’s mound 796 times. Two of those games, 23...
May 28, 2017 · Former U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning, a Hall of Fame pitcher who parlayed his sports fame into a political career as an uncompromising advocate for conservative causes, has died.
May 27, 2017 · Former U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning, a major league pitching star who took his aggressive, no-nonsense brand of competitiveness into the game of politics as a congressman and senator from Kentucky, has...
