Tommy Byrne
Baseball
Inducted: 1976
- Born in Baltimore, 1919
- Attended Wake Forest University
- Hard-throwing southpaw pitcher for some of the most famous teams in baseball history
- Pitched in major leagues in 1943 and 1946–1957, including six seasons with New York Yankees
- Went 16-5 for the Yankees in 1955, leading the AL with .762 winning percentage
- Pitched for the Yankees in four World Series, losing game seven in 1955 to the Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0
- Ended his career with an 85-69 record
- Compiled .238 lifetime batting average, with 14 home runs
- Retired to Wake Forest, where he was mayor for many years
- Saw World War II combat duty on a destroyer
