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Jerry Hairston
(White Sox Outfielder, 1973-77, 1981-89)

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  • Place of birth: Birmingham, Alabama
  • Reserve player and DH through Sox career
  • Leads AL in pinch hits three successive years
  • All time Sox pinch hit leader, with 87
  • His father, Sam, plays briefly with Sox in 1951       
  • Son: Jerry Hairston, Jr.

    • Jerry Hairston's most dramatic pinch hit came in 1983:

    With two out in the 9th inning, Detroit's Milt Wilcox was pitching
    a perfect game-- which was then foiled when
    pinch hitter Hairston delivered a base hit    
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