Clifford Day Chambers (January 10, 1922 – January 21, 2012) was a professional baseball pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1948-1953. He played for the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, and St. Louis Cardinals. He was born in Portland, Oregon.
Chambers played two seasons of college baseball for the Washington State Cougars from 1941–1942.
On May 6, 1951, in the second game of a doubleheader at Braves Field in Boston, Chambers pitched a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates, beating the Boston Braves, 3-0.
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“Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“The price on the wanted
poster was a-going down, outlaw alias copped my stance
and moody greenhorns were making me dance; while my mouth’s
shooting iron got its chambers jammed.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)