Cloyd Victor Boyer Jr. (born September 1, 1927 in Alba, Missouri) is a former right-handed pitcher and pitching coach in Major League Baseball who played between 1949 and 1955 for the St. Louis Cardinals (1949–52) and Kansas City Athletics (1955).Boyer was the oldest of fourteen children of marble cutter Chester Vern Boyer (1903–81) and his wife, the former Mabel Agnes Means (1907–71), including sons Cloyd, Wayne (born 1929), Ken (1931–82), Lynn (born c.