The brother of tennis great Billie Jean King, Moffitt averaged 58 games a year out of San Francisco’s bullpen from 1972 through 1978. A sinkerballer with good control, he threw his fastball and slider with overhand, three-quarter, and sidearm deliveries. He was second in the NL with 15 saves in 1974, and sixth in 1976 with 14. He missed much of 1980 and 1981 with a mysterious stomach ailment that turned out to be a fungus so rare that his was only the world’s third known case. Doctors finally burned it out. Moffitt retired with 96 career saves.
