1937 and '38 ERAs of 2.93 and 2.95 put him in the Top 10 for the league. According to Charles Bukowski's childhood friend Harold Mortenson, in the 1930s, the two played a statistics-intensive baseball game akin to Strat-O-Matic that involved two dice and two manuals that was marketed under Danny MacFayden's name when he was with the Boston Bees. After a losing season in 1939, the Bees traded him to the Pittsburgh Pirates for pitcher Bill Swift and cash. For the Pirates, he was 5–4 with a 3.55 ERA, mostly as a reliever, but the organization released after the 1940 season as they considered him too old at 35. The Senators signed him as free agent, but released him on May 15, 1941 after he went 0–1 with a 10.59 ERA in five games. MacFayden eventually returned to Boston's Braves Field in July 1943 for a last hurrah, two years after being released by the Senators. The manpower demands of World War II meant that major league baseball was bereft of major league talent. He went 2–1 with a 5.91 ERA, all but one of his ten games in relief. He was released by the Braves in April 1944, before the start of the season. Post-baseball career MacFayden continued to work as the Hebron Academy as hockey coach into the early 1940s. He also had worked in insurance in some off-seasons. He was appointed Maine's commissioner of amateur baseball in the summer of 1942, the first year he was out of pro baseball since being signed by the Red Sox. He became a teacher at Vermont Academy in October 1943. MacFayden became the varsity baseball coach at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1946 and remained at that post for 23 years through 1968. He also occasionally coached hockey at Bowdoin, retiring as a coach in 1970. On August 26, 1972, after a long illness, he died at the Brunswick Hospital. He was 67 years old. Highlights Led American League in shutouts (1929, four) Finished ninth in National League MVP vote (1936) On September 28, 1935, struck out 15 New York Giants hitters in a nine-inning game, equaling Dazzy Vance's 1924 National League record. References Pleasants, Ben. Visceral Bukowski: Inside the Sniper Landscape of L.A. Writers (Northville, Michigan: Sundog Press, 2004). p. 108. External links Danny MacFayden - Baseballbiography.com The Baseball Biography Project: Danny MacFayden by Bill Nowlin NerdBaseball.com Danny