Former Major Leaguer, Brown Baseball coach Dave Stenhouse dies at 90

WESTERLY, R.I. (WLNE) — Former Major League Baseball player and Brown University baseball coach Dave Stenhouse died early Saturday according to his family.

Stenhouse’s son Mike posted on Facebook a memorial to his father listing some of his achievement in his life.

Stenhouse played professional baseball for 13 years, with three of them with the Washington Senators.

“In 1962, he made history as the very first rookie pitcher to start a Major League All-Star Game,” Mike said.

Later in life Stenhouse worked as a baseball coach for Brown and Rhode Island College, and was inducted into the University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, and Westerly athletic halls of fame.

He also co-founded the CLCF Basketball program in Cranston and the Rhode Island Baseball Institute in Warwick.

Stenhouse was a Westerly native, a former Army Reservist, and helped chair fundraising tournaments at the Warwick Country Club for the Jimmy Fund.