Rick Anderson (baseball, born 1953)


Richard Lee Anderson was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He attended high school in Gardena, California.
Anderson was drafted by the New York Yankees in the first round of the 1972 Major League Baseball Draft. In 1979, Anderson was named the International League Pitcher of the Year with the Columbus Clippers. He made his major league debut with the Yankees on September 18,. This was the only game in which he pitched for the Yankees, as he was traded to the Seattle Mariners over the offseason. After developing arm problems during the season, Anderson was released, effectively ending his career.
Anderson died from atherosclerosis on June 23, 1989. When his body was discovered in his Wilmington, California home,