Gene Covington "Sandy" Vance was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. Drafted in the second round he pitched in 30 games in the 1970s for the Los Angeles Dodgers, including 21 starts and 2 complete games. In his first year as a rookie with the Dodgers, he was voted "Dodger Rookie of the Year" for that season with a 7?7 record and the lowest ERA on the Dodger pitchers starting staff. Arm injuries during the 1971 season eventually forced an early retirement from baseball at age 26 in 1973. He went to school at Stanford University, graduating "with distinction" with a subsequent graduate degree from California Polytechnic University in Land Planning and Landscape Architecture. While a pitcher at Stanford, he compiled a 32?3 win-loss record in his freshman, sophomore, and junior years, with a perfect 15?0 record in his sophomore year, a school record that still stands unbroken. He was subsequently voted into the Stanford Baseball Hall of Fame. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with a 30-year career in land planning and landscape architecture. 

January 5th, 1947 in Lamar (Age 77)