Albert Lee Stange (born October 27, 1936) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. The right-hander was signed by the Washington Senators as an amateur free agent before the 1957 season. He played for the Minnesota Twins (1961-64), Cleveland Indians (1964-66), Boston Red Sox (1966-70), and Chicago White Sox (1970).

He attended college at Drake University on a football scholarship, but a knee injury led to him playing baseball instead.

The majority of his 359 appearances were as a relief pitcher, but he did start 125 games. In 1963, he was 12-5 and finished sixth in the American League in earned run average (2.62) and fifth in winning percentage (.705). In 1967, he was 8-10, 2.77 for the pennant-winning "Impossible Dream" Red Sox, and pitched two scoreless innings in World Series Game # 3 (October 7, 1967). He finished his career with a total of 62 wins, 61 losses, 32 complete games, 8 shutouts, 21 saves, 77 games finished, 718 strikeouts and only 344 walks in 1,216 innings pitched, and an ERA of 3.56.

Stange was later a pitching coach for the Boston Red Sox (1972-74; 1981-84), Minnesota Twins (1975), and Oakland Athletics (1977-79). He was a roving minor league pitching instructor in the Red Sox farm system in 1971, 1980 and 1985-94, and managed Oakland's Triple-A Tucson Toros farm club for the final weeks of the 1976 season.

Stange currently serves as the pitching coach for NCAA Division II Florida Institute of Technology, a position he has served in since 2005.

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