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4 unusual facts about Don Sutton


Daron Sutton

Sutton is also the son of former pitching great and Hall of Famer Don Sutton.

Don Sutton

Sutton attended J. M. Tate High School in Cantonment/Gonzalez, Florida where he played baseball, basketball, and football.

Late in the 1982 season, the Astros sent Sutton to the Milwaukee Brewers for Kevin Bass, Frank DiPino and Mike Madden.

He was born to sharecroppers at the end of World War II, in a tar-paper shack.


Inside-the-park home run

Johnnie LeMaster hit the only inside-the-park home run to be recorded in a first career MLB at-bat on September 2, 1975, against future Hall of Famer Don Sutton.


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