LONG BEACH, Calif. — Randy Moffitt, a reliever who performed 12 seasons in Main League Baseball and was the youthful brother of tennis nice and equality advocate Billie Jean King, has died after an prolonged sickness. He was 76.
Moffitt died Thursday in Lengthy Seashore, California, in keeping with a consultant of the household.
Moffitt was drafted by the San Francisco Giants within the first spherical in 1970 and made his main league debut with the group in 1972.
He went on to play 10 seasons with the Giants, earlier than spending one every with the Houston Astros and Toronto Blue Jays. He went 43-52 with 96 saves and a 3.65 ERA in 534 appearances within the majors, all however one in reduction.
He was added to the San Francisco Giants Wall of Fame in 2008 and inducted into the Lengthy Seashore State College Athletics Corridor of Fame in 1986.
Randall James “Randy” Moffitt was born on Oct. 13, 1948, in Lengthy Seashore, the son of Invoice and Betty Moffitt.
He’s survived by two daughters — Miranda Harrah and her husband, Rusty, and Alysha Gosse and her husband, James — and 4 grandchildren, together with King and her spouse, Ilana Kloss.
