If you threw a complete game in your first major league start, you would expect that team to give you another go, maybe even in a couple days.
That did not happen for Dick Starr. He got just one career start as a Yankee, but he at least made the most of it.
The Pennsylvania-born Starr was signed by the Yankees before the 1941 season when he was 19 or 20 years old. He spent two seasons in the minors before enlisting in the military and serving in World War II. When the pitcher returned from service in 1946, he put up impressive numbers in the South Atlantic League and found himself in the upper levels of the Yankees’ system in the following year.