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David Allen Tomlin (born June 22, 1949) is an American former professional baseball player. During his 13-season career in Major League Baseball, he was a relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds (1972–73 and 1978–80), San Diego Padres (1974–77), Montreal Expos (1982 and 1986) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1983 and 1985). He also had a lengthy post-playing career as a pitching coach in the minor leagues.

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Biography

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Early years

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Tomlin was born in Maysville, Kentucky and graduated from West Union High School in West Union, Ohio.[1]

Minor leagues

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He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 29th round of the 1967 Major League Baseball draft.[2]

San Diego Padres

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1977 San Diego Padres #37 Dave Tomlin game worn home jersey

After appearing in 19 games for Cincinnati in 1972 and 1973, Tomlin was traded (along with Bobby Tolan) to the San Diego Padres for Clay Kirby. Tomlin's lone major league start came on June 23, 1976.[3] He appeared regularly for the Padres from 1974 to 1977, having his best two seasons of his career, based on WAR, in 1977 and 1978.[4]

Cincinnati Reds

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Tomlin was traded to the Texas Rangers after the 1978 season for Gaylord Perry, but returned to the Reds in March 1979 when they purchased his contract. He helped the Reds win the 1973 and 1979 NL West Division championships. He appeared in four National League Championship series games, one in 1973 and three in 1979, and allowed eight hits and three earned runs in 42⁄3 innings pitched.[5]

Toronto Blue Jays

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Cincinnati released him on September 2, 1980, and Tomlin signed with the Toronto Blue Jays before the 1981 season, but did not appear with the major league team that year. He was released by the Blue Jays before the 1982 season.

Montreal Expos

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Tomlin signed as a free agent with the Reds in 1982, but did not appear with Cincinnati that year. His contract was purchased late in the season by the Montreal Expos and he appeared in one game for the 1982 Expos. In 1986, Tomlin would return to the Expos as a free agent, appearing in seven games for Montreal that year.

Pittsburgh Pirates

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In 1983, the Pittsburgh Pirates purchased his contract, but released Tomlin at the end of the season and then resigned him as a free agent in 1984. Tomlin appeared in a total of six games for the Pirates over two years.

Career totals

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In 13 seasons, Tomlin had a won–lost record of 25–12 in 409 games pitched, one game started, 138 games finished, 12 saves, 5111⁄3 innings, 543 hits allowed, 261 runs allowed, 217 earned runs allowed, 32 home runs allowed, 198 walks, 278 strikeouts, 12 wild pitches, 2,239 batters faced, 58 intentional walks, seven balks and a 3.82 earned run average.

Coach and manager

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Tomlin became a pitching coach in the Montreal and Atlanta Braves organizations after his active career. He joined the Boston Red Sox in 1998 in a similar capacity, until 2006, when he was named manager of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast Red Sox of the Gulf Coast League. He served through 2010, compiling a five-year mark of 150–127 (.542), with one league championship (2006). He then shifted to a coaching position with the GCL Red Sox, working for six seasons (2011–16) in that post.[6]

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'''Dave Tomlin''' (1934–2024) was a British musician, writer, and influential figure in the London counterculture underground from the 1960s onward known for his contributions to jazz and experimental music, his role in fostering artistic communities, and his memoir chronicling his unconventional life experiences. Born in Plaistow, east London, Tomlin initially trained as a bugler in the King’s Guard before becoming a professional jazz musician in the 1950s, playing clarinet and saxophone with Bob Wallis’s Storyville Jazz Band and touring alongside gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. In the 1960s, he immersed himself in the emerging underground scene, teaching free-form jazz at the London Free School in Notting Hill, leading annual musical processions down Portobello Road that helped lay groundwork for the Notting Hill Carnival, and performing late-night sets at the UFO Club. He played in experimental groups including the Third Ear Band and led the short-lived psychedelic group Giant Sun Trolley, which played at the UFO Club alongside acts like Pink Floyd and Soft Machine. In 1976, Tomlin co-founded the Guild of Transcultural Studies after occupying the former Cambodian embassy in London, transforming the building into a long-running squatted community that hosted artists, musicians, poets, radical thinkers, and refugees from Chile, China, and elsewhere while staging concerts featuring international performers from Morocco and India. The guild operated for 15 years until its closure in 1991 following a court case. Tomlin's nomadic travels in the late 1960s hippy era included time living in a horse-drawn cart and an episode stranded in Equatorial Guinea before returning home. In his later years, he supported himself through gardening and handyman work while pursuing interests in Chinese brush painting and writing; his memoir Tales From the Embassy was published in 2017. He died aged 90 in late 2024.

Early life

Dave Tomlin was born in 1934 in Plaistow, east London (then in Essex), to Stan Tomlin, a packing-case maker, and Louisa (née Goodsell). To avoid a future in factory work, he joined the King’s Guard, where he trained as a bugler and performed during the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. In the 1950s, he became a professional jazz musician, playing clarinet and saxophone with Bob Wallis’s Storyville Jazz Band and touring alongside gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Major League playing career Dave Tomlin, the British musician and writer, did not have a career in Major League Baseball. The content originally provided in this section describes the baseball career of a different individual, David Allen Tomlin (born 1949), an American relief pitcher who played in MLB from 1972 to 1986 for teams including the Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, and Montreal Expos. There is no evidence of any involvement in professional baseball by the subject of this article.

Post-playing career

After the closure of the Guild of Transcultural Studies in 1991, Tomlin supported himself through gardening and handyman work in his later years. He pursued personal interests in Chinese brush painting and writing. His memoir, Tales From the Embassy, chronicling his unconventional experiences, was published in 2017. He continued his distinctive lifestyle until his death in late 2024. No television appearances are documented for Dave Tomlin (the British musician and writer) in reliable sources. The previous content referred to a different person with the same name who was a Major League Baseball pitcher.
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