![]() ![]() On July 8, 1979, at the age of 26, he made his major league debut with the Kansas City Royals against the Chicago White Sox, pitching 2 + 2⁄ 3 scoreless innings, and surrendering just two hits and no walks. In the winter of 1978, he attended Fresno Pacific University, affiliated with the Mennonite Brethren Church, to get a teaching degree in case his baseball career was not successful. At the time, he worked for a sporting goods store during the day and a mortuary at night. At the end of the season, he was promoted to the Double-A team in Jacksonville, Florida. Quisenberry signed with the Royals as an amateur free agent in 1975 for a Class A team in Waterloo, Iowa and pitched a complete game in his first start. He was then recruited by the University of La Verne, a Church of the Brethren college, where he met his future wife, Janie Howard, while attending a class in square dancing. ![]() In 1973, while attending Orange Coast College, he was named team MVP. ![]() Quisenberry played baseball at Costa Mesa High School/Middle School. His parents divorced when he was 7 years old and his mother remarried Art Meola, a Rockwell International engineer who encouraged him and his older brother to play baseball. His name is not the name of a fruit, but the English mutation of the German surname Questenberg, a village in Saxony-Anhalt. Quisenberry was born in Santa Monica, California. Quisenberry retired in 1990 with 244 saves, then the fifth-highest total in major league history. Notable for his submarine-style pitching delivery and his humorous quotes, he led the American League in saves a record five times (1980, 1982–85). Quisenberry pitching for the Kansas City Royalsĭaniel Raymond "Quiz" Quisenberry ( / ˈ k w ɪ z ən b ɛr i/ Febru– September 30, 1998) was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the Kansas City Royals. April 23, 1990, for the San Francisco Giants ![]()
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