A celebration of life for former Kansas City Royals pitcher and University of Kansas baseball coach Marty Pattin will be held from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., Thursday, in the Naismith Room on the second floor of Allen Fieldhouse, KU officials have confirmed.
Pattin, a major league All-Star in 1971 who won 114 games in a career that spanned 13 seasons, died Wednesday in his sleep while visiting friends in his hometown of Charleston, Ill. He was 75.
Pattin pitched for the Royals from 1974-80 and also for the California Angels, Seattle Pilots, Milwaukee Brewers and Boston Red Sox.