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Darrell G "Bucky" Brandon (born July 8, 1940), is an American former professional baseball right-handed pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Seattle Pilots, Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies. During a 7-year MLB career, Brandon compiled 28 wins (W), 354 strikeouts (SO), and a 4.04 earned run average (ERA).

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Bucky Brandon
Pitcher
Born: (1940-07-08) July 8, 1940 (age 82) Nacogdoches, Texas
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 19, 1966, for the Boston Red Sox
Last MLB appearance
September 30, 1973, for the Philadelphia Phillies
MLB statistics
Win–loss record	28–37
Earned run average	4.04
Strikeouts	354
Teams
Boston Red Sox (1966–1968) Seattle Pilots (1969) Minnesota Twins (1969) Philadelphia Phillies (1971–1973)

Brandon attended Nacogdoches High School in Texas and was signed as a free agent in 1959 by the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Once a heralded pitching prospect, Brandon was an undistinguished reliever throughout most of his career. In 1966, his rookie season, he made 17 starts for Boston and finished 8-8, with a 3.31 ERA, a career-high 101 SO, two shutouts, and a two-hit, one-run game. But Brandon developed arm problems at this early stage of his career and slumped to 5-11, in 1967, then pitched only 12 innings, in 1968. A year later, he divided his playing time between the expansion Seattle Pilots and Minnesota and spent the entire 1970 season with the Triple-A Tucson Toros, in the Chicago White Sox farm system. From 1971 to 1973, Brandon collected 15 wins and eight saves for the Phillies, as a reliever and spot starter.

External links

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet
• Bucky Brandon at SABR (Baseball BioProject)
• Bucky Brandon at Baseball Almanac
• Bucky Brandon at Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Professional Baseball League)

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