Elzie Clise Dudley (August 8, 1903 – January 12, 1989) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched from 1929 to 1933. He attended the University of South Carolina.

On April 27, 1929, Dudley became only the second Major League player, and first pitcher, to hit a home run on the first pitch he ever saw. (Walter Mueller, an outfielder, was the first player to do so- in 1922.) Despite the achievement, Brooklyn lost 8–3 to the Philadelphia Phillies.

Clise Dudley

See also

Home run in first Major League at-bat

External links

Image print of Clise Dudley

Rare newspaper story of the first-pitch home run

Color photograph

Another print of Clise

1903 births

1989 deaths

People from Graham, North Carolina

Baseball players from Alamance County, North Carolina

Major League Baseball pitchers

Brooklyn Robins players

Philadelphia Phillies players

Pittsburgh Pirates players

Greenville Spinners players

Spartanburg Spartans players

Atlanta Crackers players

Columbus Red Birds players

Chattanooga Lookouts players

Montreal Royals players

Baltimore Orioles (International League) players

Clise Dudley