RIP - Al Stanek

Al Stanek, a pitcher for the 1963 Giants, passed away on May 8, 2018 at age 74.

Stanek's career consisted of 11 games for the Giants in 1963 (as a 20-year-old). He pitched for various Giants' farm teams from 1962-1967, and despite not pitching for San Francisco after September 1963, he managed to score cards in the '64, '65, and '66 Topps sets.

A high school baseball star from western Massachusetts, he compiled a 37-5 record as a high school pitcher, and was also quite a hitter, collecting 29 RBI in 21 games as a senior. He was inducted into the Western Massachusetts Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014.

MassLive.com obituary