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near-capacity crowd in Clyde's six home starts, but 6,000 fans for the other 75 home dates. Prior to Clyde's debut, the highest crowd in
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an extra 20,000 seats. Short was looking for some sort of way to boost attendance, and found it using fellow Texas native Clyde. When Clyde agreed to sign his rookie contract, part of the deal was to make his first two professional starts with the
Rangers at their home field before heading to the
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Rangers after the 1979 season, but injured his shoulder for the second time, and was released prior to the 1980 season with the Rangers claiming that Clyde was "damaged
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held the first overall pick, having the worst record in baseball the previous strike-shortened season at 54â100. He was the first player selected in the 1973 amateur draft by the
Rangers and received a $ 125,000 ($ 857,946 today) signing bonus, the highest bonus ever given to a draft pick at the
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for 20 years, which he called one of the best periods of his life, giving him a "peace of mind". He retired in 2003 as vice president of the company and worked as a coach for a local youth baseball team. He is now a caregiver for his elderly father.
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919:"David Clyde Statistics and History"
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880:Nissenson, Herschel (July 3, 1973).
16:American baseball player (born 1955)
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1036:Ringolsby, Tracey (July 26, 2013).
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