{"id":105556,"date":"2025-08-30T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105556\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:47:09","slug":"randy-moffitt-ex-giants-reliever-and-brother-of-tennis-icon-billie-jean-king-dead-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105556\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Moffitt, ex-Giants reliever and brother of tennis icon Billie Jean King, dead at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"

Randy Moffitt, the younger brother of tennis icon Billie Jean King and a former reliever for 12 seasons, died Thursday in Long Beach, Calif., following an extended illness, according to the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was 76.<\/p>\n

Moffitt\u2019s MLB career stretched from 1972 \u2014 he was a first-round pick by San Francisco in the 1970 draft \u2014 until 1983, and he closed his career with seasons in Houston and Toronto in 1982 and 1983, respectively.<\/p>\n

Randy Moffitt is pictured before a Giants game in 2011. MLB via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Randy Moffitt and Billie Jean King are pictured. Screengrab via X\/@BillieJeanKing<\/p>\n

\u201cLike Billie Jean, Randy personified the power of self-belief and the value of competition, forging a successful Major League baseball career as a pitcher with the San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros, and Toronto Blue Jays,\u201d the USTA wrote in a statement posted to X on Friday<\/a>. \u201cThis is a sad day for our tennis family, and our sincere condolences go out to Randy\u2019s entire family, including his two daughters\u2014Miranda Harrah and her husband, Rusty, and Alysha Gosse and her husband, James\u2014his four grandchildren, and our dear friend and colleague Billie Jean and her wife, Ilana Kloss.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Giants, in a post on X<\/a>, wrote that they were \u201cdeeply saddened to learn of\u201d Moffitt\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Moffitt was inducted into the Giants\u2019 Wall of Fame in 2008 and the Long Beach State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1986. He pitched to a 3.65 ERA while collecting 96 saves across his MLB seasons.<\/p>\n

He developed into a durable arm who finished in the top 10 for National League saves in four seasons, and he also topped 60 appearances in four campaigns.<\/p>\n

Randy Moffitt is pictured with the Blue Jays in 1983. Toronto Star via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Randy Moffitt (l.) is pictured before a Giants game in 2011. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Moffitt sits ninth all-time in franchise history for saves (83) and sixth all-time in games pitched (459), according to the team.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Last April on National Siblings Day, King wrote an X post<\/a> that they were \u201ctwo very competitive kids, right from the start\u201d and that they\u2019re \u201calike in so many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Randy Moffitt and Billie Jean King are pictured in a photo shared to social media. Screengrab via X\/@BillieJeanKing<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were so fortunate to grow up in a loving home,\u201d King, who won 12 Grand Slam titles in singles and became one of the sport\u2019s pioneering presences while advocating for equality, wrote later in her post. \u201cOur bond is unbreakable to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n

King also described Moffitt as a \u201cwonderful human being\u201d in an October 2023 post celebrating his birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Randy Moffitt, the younger brother of tennis icon Billie Jean King and a former reliever for 12 seasons,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,1804,591,5157,85],"class_list":["post-105556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-billie-jean-king","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}