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American League
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The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League, is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a league based in the Great Lakes states. It is sometimes called the Junior Circuit because it claimed Major League status for the 1901 season,25 years after the formation of the National League. At the end of season, the American League champion plays in the World Series against the National League champion. Through 2016, American League teams have won 64 of the 112 World Series played since 1903, the 2016 American League champions are the Cleveland Indians. The New York Yankees have won 40 American League titles, the most in the history, followed by the Philadelphia/Kansas City/Oakland Athletics. Originally a minor league known as the Western League, the American League later developed into a major league after the American Association disbanded, in its early history, the Western League struggled until 1894, when Ban Johnson became the president of the league. Johnson led the Western League into major league status and soon became the president of the newly renamed American League, babe Ruth, noted as one of the most prolific hitters in Major League Baseball history, spent the majority of his career in the American League. The American League has one notable difference versus the National League, in 1902, the Milwaukee Brewers moved to St. Louis and were renamed the St. Louis Browns. In 1902, The Cleveland Bluebirds were also renamed the Cleveland Broncos, in 1903, the Broncos were renamed the Cleveland Naps. In 1915, the Naps were renamed the Cleveland Indians, in 1903, the Baltimore Orioles moved to New York and were renamed the New York Highlanders. In 1913, the Highlanders were renamed the New York Yankees, in 1904, the Chicago White Stockings were renamed the Chicago White Sox. In 1908, the Boston Americans were renamed the Boston Red Sox, in 1954, the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore and were renamed as the Baltimore Orioles. In 1955, the Philadelphia Athletics moved to Kansas City and were renamed as the Kansas City Athletics, in 1961, the league expanded and added two teams as the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Senators, expanding the league to 10 teams. The original Senators team moved to Minneapolis/St, Paul in 1961 and were renamed as the Minnesota Twins. The Angels team name changed to the California Angels in 1966, then to the Anaheim Angels in 1997, the Kansas City Royals and the Seattle Pilots were added to the American League, expanding the league to 12 teams. In 1970, the Seattle Pilots moved to Milwaukee and were renamed the Milwaukee Brewers, in 1972, the Washington Senators relocated to the Dallas/Fort Worth area and were renamed the Texas Rangers. In 1977, the league expanded to fourteen teams, when the Seattle Mariners, in 1998, the Tampa Bay Rays was added to the American League and at the same time, the Milwaukee Brewers were switched to the National League, leaving the American League with 14 teams
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Yankee Stadium
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Yankee Stadium is a stadium located in the Concourse section of the Bronx, a borough of New York City. It serves as the ballpark for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. The $2.3 billion stadium, built with $1.2 billion in public subsidies and it is one block north of the original, on the 24-acre former site of Macombs Dam Park, the 8-acre site of the original stadium is now a public park called Heritage Field. Although Yankee Stadiums construction began in August 2006, the project spanned many years and faced many controversies, including the public cost. The overall price tag makes the new Yankee Stadium the most expensive ever built. It is also the home park for New York City FC of Major League Soccer. New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner began campaigning for a new stadium in the early 1980s, Steinbrenner at the time was reportedly considering a move to the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey. Governor Thomas Kean in 1984 authorized the use of land for a new stadium in the Meadowlands. In a statewide referendum in 1987, New Jersey taxpayers rejected $185 million in financing for a baseball stadium for the Yankees. Despite the rejection from New Jersey, Steinbrenner frequently used a move there as leverage in negotiations with New York City. Steinbrenner agreed in principle, but then backed out of the deal, in 1993, Mayor David Dinkins expanded on Kochs proposal by offering his Bronx Center vision for the neighborhood, including new housing, a new courthouse, and relocating the Police Academy nearby. However, Cuomo lost his re-election bid a few months later, by 1995, Steinbrenner had rejected 13 proposals to keep the Yankees in the Bronx. That same year, Mayor Rudy Giuliani unveiled a plan to relocate the Yankees to the West Side Yard for a $1 billion stadium, however, with most of the funding coming from taxpayers, Giuliani tabled the proposal, fearing rejection in a citywide referendum. He estimated that both stadiums would cost $2 billion, with city and state taxpayers contributing $1.2 billion, at the time, Bloomberg said that publicly funded stadiums were a poor investment. Bloombergs blueprint for the stadium was unveiled in 2004, at the time as the plan for the Mets new stadium. The final cost for the two stadiums was more than $3.1 billion, taxpayer subsidies accounted for $1.8 billion, the Yankees continued to play in the previous Yankee Stadium during the 2007 and 2008 seasons while their new home stadium was built across the street. The community was left without parkland for five years, after the worker was exposed by co-workers, he was forced to help exhume the jersey. The worker has since claimed to have buried a 2004 American League Championship Series program/scorecard and these attempts didnt have much effect upon the home team, though, the Yankees went on to win the 2009 World Series at the end of their first MLB season in the new stadium. The new stadium is meant to evoke elements of the original Yankee Stadium, the exterior resembles the original look of the 1923 Yankee Stadium
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Jacob Ruppert
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Jacob Ruppert, Jr. was an American brewer, businessman, National Guard colonel and United States Congressman who served for four terms representing New York from 1899 to 1907. He also owned the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball from 1915 until his death in 1939, starting out in the family brewing business, Ruppert entered the United States National Guard in 1886 at the age of 19, eventually reaching the rank of colonel. While he was the owner of the Yankees, he purchased the contract of Babe Ruth and built Yankee Stadium, reversing the franchises fortunes, Ruppert was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in July 2013. Ruppert was born in New York City, the son of brewer Jacob Ruppert, Sr. and his wife and he was the second oldest of six children, along with Cornelia Ruppert-Franko, Anna Schalk, Frank, George and Amanda Elizabeth Lizzie Ruppert-Silleck. His grandfather Franz, a brewer from Bavaria, had emigrated to the United States in 1836 or 1842 and his mother was also of German ethnicity, and was herself the daughter of prominent brewer George Gillig. Although he was a second-generation American, to the day he died he spoke with a noticeable German accent and he grew up in the Jacob Ruppert, Sr. Jacob Jr. attended the Columbia Grammar School and he was accepted into Columbia College, but instead began working in the brewing business with his father in 1887. He started as a washer, working 12-hour days for $10 a week. Ruppert enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, National Guard of New York, in 1890, he was promoted to colonel and appointed to serve on the staff of David B. Hill, the Governor of New York, serving as aide-de-camp and he became a senior aide on the staff of Roswell P. Flower, Hills successor as governor, until 1895. Ruppert was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1898 as a member of the Democratic Party to the Fifty-sixth United States Congress, low of the Republican Party in New Yorks 15th congressional district. He was supported in his election by Richard Croker, the boss of Tammany Hall. Ruppert won reelection over Alderman Elias Goodman in 1900, Ruppert was renominated for Congress, this time running in New Yorks 16th congressional district, in 1902. Ruppert was not a candidate for reelection in 1906, and he left office in 1907, Ruppert was also president of the Astoria Silk Works and the United States Brewers Association from 1911 through 1914. In January 1914, he bought J&M Haffen Brewing Company for $700,000, intending to close the brewery down and develop the property, upon his fathers death in 1915, Ruppert inherited the Jacob Ruppert Brewing Company and became the companys president. Ruppert also owned real estate, including Pass-a-Grille Key in Florida, Ruppert, interested in baseball since his childhood, began to pursue ownership of a Major League Baseball team, and attempted to purchase the New York Giants on numerous occasions. In 1912 he was offered an opportunity to purchase the Chicago Cubs, however, Frank J. Farrell and William S. Devery, owners of the New York Yankees, were looking to sell their franchise. Ruppert and Tillinghast LHommedieu Huston, a former United States Army engineer and captain, purchased the Yankees from Farrell and Devery before the 1915 season for $480,000
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Ed Barrow
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Edward Grant Barrow was an American manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball. He served as the manager of the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox. He served as manager of the New York Yankees from 1921 to 1939 and as team president from 1939 to 1945. Barrow was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953, born in a covered wagon in Springfield, Illinois, Barrow worked as a journalist and soap salesman before entering the business of baseball by selling concessions at games. From there, Barrow purchased minor league teams, also serving as team manager. After managing the Tigers in 1903 and 1904 and returning to the leagues, Barrow became disenchanted with baseball. Barrow returned to baseball in 1910 as president of the Eastern League, after a seven-year tenure, Barrow managed the Red Sox from 1918 through 1920, leading the team to victory in the 1918 World Series. When Red Sox owner Harry Frazee began to sell his star players, during his quarter-century as their baseball operations chief, the Yankees won 14 AL pennants and 10 World Series titles. Barrow was born in Springfield, Illinois, the oldest of four children, all male, born to Effie Ann Vinson-Heller, Barrows father fought in the Ohio Volunteer Militia during the American Civil War. Following the war, Barrows parents, with Johns mother, brothers, the Barrows lived in Nebraska for six years before moving to Des Moines, Iowa. His middle name, Grant, was bestowed on him in honor of Ulysses S. Grant, Barrow worked as mailing clerk for the Des Moines News in 1887, receiving a promotion to circulation manager within a year. He became a reporter for the Des Moines Leader after graduating high school. He became city editor, earning $35 a week, in his last two years living in Des Moines, Barrow established a baseball team, which included future baseball stars Fred Clarke, Ducky Holmes, and Herm McFarland. Barrow moved to Pittsburgh in 1889, where he worked as a soap salesman, however, Barrow lost all of money in this business, and went to work as a desk clerk in a Pittsburgh hotel. Barrow partnered with Harry Stevens in 1894 to sell concessions at baseball games and he helped George Moreland form the Interstate League, a Class-C minor league, in 1894. Barrow, with Stevens and Al Buckenberger, purchased the Wheeling Nailers of the Interstate League in 1896, Barrow served as field manager until the collapse of the league that season. The team continued in the Iron and Oil League for the rest of the year, Barrow then bought the Paterson Silk Weavers of the Class-A Atlantic League, managing them for the rest of the 1896 season. Barrow discovered Honus Wagner throwing lumps of coal at a station in Pennsylvania
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Miller Huggins
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Miller James Huggins was an American professional baseball player and manager. Huggins played second base for the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals and he managed the Cardinals and New York Yankees, including the Murderers Row teams of the 1920s that won six American League pennants and three World Series championships. He received a degree in law from the University of Cincinnati, rather than serve as a lawyer, Huggins chose to pursue a professional baseball career. He played semi-professional and minor league baseball from 1898 through 1903, as a player, Huggins was adept at getting on base. Despite fielding successful teams for the Yankees in the 1920s, he continued to make changes in order to maintain his teams superiority in the AL. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1964, Huggins was born in Cincinnati, where his father, an Englishman, worked as a grocer. His mother was a native of Cincinnati and he had two brothers and one sister. Huggins attended Woodward High School, Walnut Hills High School, where he studied law and played college baseball for the Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team. A shortstop, he was named captain of the Bearcats in 1900. Seeing him consumed with baseball, his law professors summoned him to justify why they should keep him in the law program, Huggins father, a devout Methodist, objected to his son playing baseball on Sundays. In 1900, he played for Fleischmanns semiprofessional team based in the Catskill Mountains and he was admitted to the bar, but never practiced law. Huggins began his career in minor league baseball with the Mansfield Haymakers of the Class B Interstate League in 1899. He continued his minor league apprenticeship with the St. Paul Saints of the American Association from 1901 through 1903, in 1903, he pulled off the first delayed steal in recorded baseball history. Fleischmann, part-owner of the Cincinnati Reds of the National League, the Reds duly purchased his contract from the Saints before the 1904 season. He made his MLB debut on April 15,1904, and he batted.264 with the Reds that season and improved in the 1906 season, finishing with a.292 batting average and 41 stolen bases, while spending considerable time developing his upper-body strength. Although Huggins hoped to be selected as Ned Hanlons successor as Cincinnatis manager after the 1907 season, in 1908, He played with the Reds in the Cuban-American Major League Clubs Series. Hampered by an ankle and torn ligaments in his shoulder. Before the 1910 season, the Reds traded Huggins, along with Frank Corridon and Rebel Oakes, to the St. Louis Cardinals in return for Fred Beebe and Alan Storke
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1926 New York Yankees season
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The 1926 New York Yankees season was the teams 24th season in New York, and its 26th season overall. The team finished with a record of 91–63, winning their fourth pennant, New York was managed by Miller Huggins. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium, in the World Series, they lost in 7 games to the St. Louis Cardinals, with the series ending with Babe Ruth being caught stealing second in the bottom of the 9th inning in game 7. Note, Pos = position, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. = Batting average, HR = Home runs, RBI = Runs batted in Note, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. baseball-almanac. com
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New York Yankees
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The Essendon Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League, the sports premier competition. Formed in 1871 as a club and playing as a senior club since 1878. It is historically associated with Essendon, a suburb in the north-west of Melbourne, dyson Heppell is the current team captain. A founding member club of both the Victorian Football Association, in 1877, and the Victorian Football League, in 1896, the club claims to have over at least one million supporters Australia wide. Essendon has won 16 VFL/AFL premierships which, along with Carlton, is the most of any club in the competition, the club was founded by members of the Royal Agricultural Society, the Melbourne Hunt Club and the Victorian Woolbrokers. The Essendon Football Club is thought to have formed in 1872 at a meeting it the home of a well-known brewery family, the McCrackens, whose Ascot Vale property hosted a team of local junior players. Robert McCracken, the owner of several city hotels, was the founder and first president of the Essendon club and his son, Alex, Alex would later become president of the newly formed VFL. Alexs cousin, Collier, who had played with Melbourne, was the teams first captain. The club played its first recorded match against the Carlton second twenty on 7 June 1873, Essendon played 13 matches in its first season, winning seven, with four draws and losing two. The club was one of the junior members of the Victorian Football Association in 1877. During its early years in the Association, Essendon played its matches at Flemington Hill. In 1878, Essendon played in the first match on what would be considered by modern standards to be a field at Flemington Hill. In 1879 Essendon played Melbourne in one of the earliest night matches recorded when the ball was painted white, in 1883 the team played four matches in Adelaide. In 1891 Essendon won their first VFA premiership, which they repeated in 1892,1893 and 1894, one of the clubs greatest players, Albert Thurgood played for the club during this period. Essendon was undefeated in the 1893 season, at the end of the 1896 season Essendon along with seven other clubs formed the Victorian Football League. Essendons first VFL game was in 1897 was against Geelong at Corio Oval in Geelong, Essendon won its first VFL premiership by winning the 1897 VFL finals series. Essendon again won the premiership in 1901, defeating Collingwood in the Grand Final, the club won successive premierships in 1911 and 1912 over Collingwood and South Melbourne respectively. The nickname first appeared in print in the local North Melbourne Advertiser in 1889 and it was known firstly as Essendon Town and, after 1905, as Essendon
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Pennant (sports)
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A pennant is a commemorative flag typically used to show support for a particular athletic team. Pennants have been used in all types of athletic levels, high school, collegiate. Traditionally, pennants were made of felt and fashioned in the colors of a particular team. Often graphics, usually the mascot symbol, as well as the name were displayed on pennants. The images displayed on pennants were either stitched on with contrasting colored felt or had screen-printing, today, vintage pennants with rare images or honoring special victories have become prized collectibles for sporting enthusiasts. While pennants are typically associated with teams, pennants have also been made to honor institutions and vacation spots. In Major League Baseball, a pennant typically refers to such a flag flown specifically by the National League or American League championship team of a given season, the last few weeks of the regular American professional baseball season are known as a pennant race. This is a holdover from the time when the championships were determined by the team with the best record at the end of the regular season. In Australian sports, the flag is used in the same context. The pennant is waved around in the crowd to support to the sport team they are cheering for
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Yankee Stadium (1923)
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Yankee Stadium was a stadium located in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. It was the home ballpark of the New York Yankees, one of the citys Major League Baseball franchises, from 1923 to 1973, the stadium hosted 6,581 Yankees regular season home games during its 85-year history. It was also the home of the New York Giants football team from 1956 through the first part of the 1973–74 football season. It has also known as The Big Ballpark in The Bronx, The Stadium. The stadium was built from 1922 to 1923 for $2.4 million, Yankee Stadium opened for the 1923 MLB season and at the time, it was hailed as a one-of-a-kind facility in the country for its size. Over the course of its history, it one of the most famous venues in the United States, having hosted a variety of events. The stadium went through many alterations and playing surface configurations over the years, the condition of the facility worsened in the 1960s and 1970s, prompting its closing for renovation from 1974 to 1975. The renovation significantly altered the appearance of the venue and reduced the distance of the outfield fences, in 2006, the Yankees began building a new $2.3 billion stadium in public parkland adjacent to the stadium. The price included $1.2 billion in public subsidies, the design includes a replica of the frieze along the roof that was in Yankee Stadium. Monument Park, a Hall of Fame for prominent former Yankees, was relocated to the new stadium, Yankee Stadium closed following the 2008 baseball season and the new stadium opened in 2009, adopting the Yankee Stadium moniker. The original Yankee Stadium was demolished in 2010, two years after it closed, and the 8-acre site was converted into a park called Heritage Field, the new Yankee stadium opened in 2009 and is currently used by the NY Yankees. The Yankees had played at the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan since 1913, however, relations between the two teams were rocky, with the Giants harboring resentment towards the Yankees. For the 1920 season, the Yankees acquired star slugger Babe Ruth and in his first year with his new team, by the middle of 1920, the Giants had issued an eviction notice to the Yankees, which was soon rescinded. In 1921, the Yankees won their first American League pennant and this exacerbated Giants owner Charles Stonehams resentment of the Yankees and reinforced his insistence that the Yankees find another place to play their home games. The Giants derisively suggested that the Yankees relocate to Queens or some other out-of-the-way place, tillinghast LHommedieu Huston and Jacob Ruppert, the Yankees owners since January 1915, decided to build their own stadium. They did so at considerable financial risk and speculation, Baseball teams typically played in 30, 000-seat facilities, but Huston and Ruppert invoked Ruths name when asked how the Yankees could justify a ballpark with 60,000 seats. The total bill for construction of the stadium was $2.5 million, Huston and Ruppert explored many areas for Yankee Stadium. Of the other sites being considered, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, consideration was also given to building atop railroad tracks on the West Side of Manhattan and to Long Island City, in Queens
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1927 World Series
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In the 1927 World Series, the New York Yankees swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in four games. This was the first sweep of a National League team by an American League team and that year, the Yankees led the American League in runs scored, hits, triples, home runs, base on balls, batting average, slugging average and on-base percentage. It featured legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig at their peaks, the team won a then-league record 110 games, finished with a 19-game lead over second place, and are considered by many to be the greatest team in the history of baseball. The 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates, with MVP Paul Waner, led the National League in runs, hits, batting average, the 1927 New York Yankees had perhaps the most feared line-up in the history of baseball. Nicknamed Murderers Row, their batting order boasted the all-time great Babe Ruth at the top of his considerable powers, left fielder Bob Meusel also drove in over 100 runs, with a.337 average. The teams pitching staff was led by another Hall of Famer, Waite Hoyt, who had his best season with a 22–7 record, three more pitchers won 18 or more games, rookie Wilcy Moore, Herb Pennock and Urban Shocker. Rounding out the staff were veteran Dutch Ruether, George Pipgras, not surprisingly, the Yankees ran away with the pennant under the leadership of manager Miller Huggins. They finished with a record of 110–44,19 games in front of the second-place Philadelphia Athletics and they were overwhelming favorites to win the World Series. The 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates were by no means a weak team, the Pirates went 94–60 for manager Donie Bush during the regular season, finishing 1 1⁄2 games ahead of the defending World Champions St. Louis Cardinals. The Pirates also had their share of future Hall of Famers, the teams best hitter was right fielder Paul Big Poison Waner, who hit a league-leading.380 and drove in 131 runs, also a league-leading total. His brother, rookie center fielder Lloyd Little Poison Waner hit.355 and scored a league-leading 133 runs, third baseman Pie Traynor hit.342 and drove in over 100 runs, joining shortstop Glenn Wright who also topped the century mark. Other solid hitters for the Pirates included first baseman Joe Harris, the Pirates pitching was not as dominant. Two veterans of the 1925 World Championship team, Lee Meadows, Carmen Hill had pitched part of six seasons in the majors before 1927, never winning more than three games. In 1927, he put everything together, winning a team-leading 22 games against 11 losses, vic Aldridge went 15–10 as the fourth starter, but his 4.25 ERA was well over the league average. In the bullpen, Johnny Miljus put together a season, posting a 1.90 ERA in 76 innings. AL New York Yankees vs. NL Pittsburgh Pirates The 1927 World Series opened under sunny skies and balmy weather at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, October 5. The crowd of 41,467 saw Yankee right-hander Waite Hoyt, the Governor of Pennsylvania, John S. Fisher was at Forbes Field, as well as New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker. Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis was seated near the Yankees’ dugout, National League President John A. Heydler was in another field box
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Murderers' Row
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Murderers’ Row were the baseball teams of the New York Yankees in the late 1920s, widely considered one of the best teams in history. The nickname is in describing the first six hitters in the 1927 team lineup, Earle Combs, Mark Koenig, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Meusel. The term was coined in 1918 by a sportswriter to describe the pre-Babe Ruth Yankee lineup of 1918. A1918 newspaper article described it, New York fans have come to know a section of the Yankees batting order as murderers row and it is composed of the first six players in the batting order—Gilhooley, Peckinpaugh, Baker, Pratt, Pipp, and Bodie. This sextet has been hammering the offerings of all comers, owner Jacob Ruppert is the man most often credited with building the team, although general manager Ed Barrow may have had as much to do with it. I wish the season was over, the 1927 season was particularly spectacular by baseball standards for the Yankees. After losing in the 1926 World Series to the St. Louis Cardinals, they went 110–44 the next year, winning the A. L. pennant by 19 games and sweeping the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1927 World Series. Only four teams have won regular season games, the 1906 Chicago Cubs and the 2001 Seattle Mariners with 116, the 1998 Yankees with 114. However, the 1998 Yankees and 2001 Mariners played in 162-game schedules, both the Cubs and the Indians lost in the World Series, while the Mariners lost to the Yankees in the 2001 ALCS. The 1998 Yankees went 11–2 in the playoffs, sweeping the San Diego Padres in the World Series, the 1927 Yankees batted.307, slugged.489, scored 975 runs, and outscored their opponents by a record 376 runs. Center fielder Earle Combs had a career best year, batting.356 with 231 hits, left fielder Bob Meusel batted.337 with 103 RBIs, and second baseman Tony Lazzeri drove in 102 runs. Gehrig batted.373, with 218 hits,52 doubles,18 triples,47 home runs, a then record 175 RBIs, slugged at.765, and was voted A. L. MVP. Ruth amassed a.356 batting average,164 RBIs,158 runs scored, walked 137 times, and slugged.772. The pitching staff led the league in ERA at 3.20, and included Waite Hoyt, who went 22–7, which tied for the lead, and Herb Pennock. Wilcy Moore won 16 as a reliever, three other Yankee pitchers had ERAs under 3.00 that season. After sweeping the Pirates in the Series, the Yankees repeated the feat by sweeping the Cardinals in the 1928 World Series, the Yankees remain the only team to ever sweep the World Series in consecutive years, the Yankee teams of 1938–1939 and 1998–1999 repeated the feat. The term Murderers Row is commonly used as a descriptor for teams with formidable talent, despite Leylands nomenclature, the team did not have the success of the original 1927 team as they were defeated by the Tigers in that series. In 2016, ESPN announced 1927, The Diary of Myles Thomas, the diary runs the length of the full 1927 season, from April 13 through October 10,1927
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1912 Boston Red Sox season
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The 1912 Boston Red Sox season was the twelfth season in the franchises Major League Baseball history. This was the first year that the team played its games at Fenway Park. The Red Sox finished first in the American League with a record of 105 wins and 47 losses. The team set or tied records for most wins, fewest losses. The team then faced the National League champion New York Giants in the 1912 World Series, which the Red Sox won in eight games to capture the franchises second World Series. One of the plays in the World Series was a muffed fly ball by Giants outfielder Fred Snodgrass. Behind center fielder Tris Speaker and pitcher Smoky Joe Wood, the Red Sox led the league in runs scored, Speaker was third in batting and was voted league Most Valuable Player. Wood won 34 games, including a record 16 in a row, although the pitching staff was satisfactory, the only star pitcher was Wood, while the only star in the starting lineup was Speaker. Little-known third baseman Larry Gardner was the next best hitter, while future Hall of Famer Harry Hooper had a poor offensive season, the Red Sox made several transactions during the 1912 offseason. In February 1912, Rip Williams was sold to the New York Highlanders, the Red Sox sold two players to the Chicago White Sox during the offseason, Jack Fournier on February 6 and Eddie Cicotte on July 9. Later in the year, on November 25, Hugh Bradley was sold to the Jersey City Giants minor league team of the International League. The only purchase made by the Red Sox that offseason was their purchase of Neal Ball from the Cleveland Naps on June 25 for $2500, the new Red Sox home stadium, Fenway Park opened on April 20, the same day as Navin Field in Detroit opened. It was supposed to be opened on April 18 but it rained in both cities on that day, on April 26, Hugh Bradley became the first player to hit a home run over the Green Monster at Fenway Park. It was his home run of the 1912 season. On April 11,1912, the Red Sox defeated the New York Highlanders 5–3 in an away game, Note, Pos = Position, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. = Batting average, HR = Home runs, RBI = Runs batted in Note, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, the Red Sox won in 8 games 4–3, tying the Giants 6–6 in Game 2. AL Boston Red Sox vs. NL New York Giants 1912 Boston Red Sox at Baseball Reference 1912 Boston Red Sox season at Baseball Almanac
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Herb Pennock
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Herbert Jefferis Pennock was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball from 1912 through 1933 and he is best known for his time spent with the star-studded New York Yankee teams of the mid to late 1920s and early 1930s. Connie Mack signed Pennock to his Philadelphia Athletics in 1912, after using Pennock sparingly, and questioning his competitive drive, Mack sold Pennock to the Boston Red Sox in 1915. After returning from service in 1919, Pennock became a regular contributor for the Red Sox. After retiring as a player, Pennock served as a coach and farm director for the Red Sox. Pennock was regarded as one of the greatest left-handed pitchers in baseball history, Mack later called his sale of Pennock to the Red Sox his greatest mistake. Pennock died of a hemorrhage in 1948, later that year. Pennock was born on February 10,1894 in Kennett Square and his father, Theodore Pennock, and mother Mary Louise Pennock were of Scotch-Irish and Quaker descent. His ancestors came to the United States with William Penn, Herb was the youngest of four children. Pennock attended Westtown School and Cedarcroft Boarding School, where he played for the baseball team, after struggling as a first baseman, with a weak offensive output and throwing arm that resulted in curved throws, his Cedarcroft coach converted Pennock into a pitcher. While pitching at Cedarcroft, Pennock threw a no-hitter to catcher Earle Mack, Pennock agreed to sign with the Athletics at a later date. Mack signed Pennock in 1912 to play for his team based in Atlantic City. Pennocks father insisted that he sign under an alias in order to protect his collegiate eligibility, Pennock threw a no-hitter against a traveling Negro league baseball team, and Mack promoted him to the Athletics. Mack intended for Pennock to be one of the prospects who would replace star pitchers Eddie Plank, Chief Bender, Pennock made his major league debut with the Athletics during the 1912 season on May 14, allowing one hit in four innings pitched. He was the youngest person to play in the American League that season, former major leaguer Mike Grady, a neighbor of Pennocks in Kennett Square, took Pennock under his wing, while Bender taught Pennock to throw a screwball. Pennock missed most of the 1913 season with an illness, but was able to rejoin the team late in the season, Mack let Bender go after the season, naming Pennock his Opening Day starting pitcher in 1915. On Opening Day, Pennock threw a complete game shutout against the Boston Red Sox. However, as the Athletics struggled, Pennocks nonchalant playing style drew Macks ire, concluding that Pennock lacked ambition, Mack sold Pennock to the Red Sox for the waiver price of $2,500
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Waite Hoyt
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He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Hoyt was born in Brooklyn, New York to Addison and Louise Benedum Hoyt, despite being a Dodgers fan, he was signed to a professional contract by New York Giants manager John McGraw when he was but 15. Because of his youth, he was immediately nicknamed The Schoolboy Wonder. After a brief stint with the Giants, McGraw sent Hoyt to the minors for refinement, Hoyt soon returned to the majors, this time with the Boston Red Sox. His performance there attracted the attention of the Yankees, who acquired him in 1920. In his finest years with the Yankees,1927 and 1928, during his 21-year career, he won 10 or more games 12 times,11 of them consecutively. Hoyt pitched for eight years after leaving the Yankees in 1930, Hoyt finished his career with a win-loss record of 237–182 and an ERA of 3.59. By the time he retired in 1938, he had pitched the most victories in World Series history, as a vaudevillian, he appeared with many of the most well-known performers of the day, including Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, George Burns, and others. He kept in shape during the off-season by playing semi-pro basketball and he added to his repertoire by becoming an accomplished painter and writer. On August 16,1948, Hoyt paid tribute to Babe Ruth and he was well known as the pre-eminent authority on Babe Ruth, who for nearly 10 years was his teammate and in Ruths small inner-circle of friends. A longtime member of Alcoholics Anonymous, during the 1978 Old-Timers Day game, after joining A. A. he remained sober for more than 40 years. After retiring as a player, Hoyt went into broadcasting and he was heard on WMCA in New York City but left that station to begin a nightly quarter-hour program of sports news and commentary on WNEW in New York, beginning October 17,1938. During a stint as the host of Grandstand and Bandstand on WMCA, he tried to audition for the Yankees, the common view at the time was that former players did not have enough of a vocabulary to be successful broadcasters. However, Hoyt was well known for dressing down umpire George Moriarty when he missed a call by saying and you should be a traffic cop so you could stand in the middle of the street with a badge on your chest and insult people with impunity. Dodgers voice Red Barber, however, thought more of Hoyts abilities and hired him as color commentator and host of the pre-, after two years, he became the play-by-play voice of the Cincinnati Reds, a post he held for 24 years. He became as much a celebrity with the Reds as he was while a player and he was well known for calling games exclusively in past tense, which was and still is unusual for sportscasting. Where most baseball announcers would say, Heres the pitch, Hoyt would say, There was the pitch. He told author Curt Smith that he felt using past tense was accurate because as I speak to you, Hoyt shared radio play-by-play duties for the 1953 All-Star Game on the Mutual Network and the second 1960 All-Star Game on NBC
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Lou Gehrig
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Henry Louis Lou or Buster Gehrig was an American baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, from 1923 through 1939. Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability and he was an All-Star seven consecutive times, a Triple Crown winner once, an American League Most Valuable Player twice, and a member of six World Series champion teams. He had a career.340 batting average.632 slugging average, and he hit 493 home runs and had 1,995 runs batted in. In 1939, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his number retired by a team. A native of New York City and attendee of Columbia University, the disease forced him to retire at age 36 and was the cause of his death two years later. The pathos of his farewell from baseball was capped off by his iconic 1939 Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth speech at Yankee Stadium, a monument in Gehrigs honor, originally dedicated by the Yankees in 1941, currently resides in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. The Lou Gehrig Memorial Award is given annually to the MLB player best exhibiting his integrity, Gehrig was born in 1903 at 309 East 94th Street in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan, he weighed almost 14 pounds at birth. He was the second of four children of German immigrants, Christina Foch and Heinrich Gehrig and his father was a sheet metal worker by trade but frequently unemployed due to alcoholism, and his mother, a maid, was the main breadwinner and disciplinarian in the family. His two sisters died at an age from whooping cough and measles, a brother also died in infancy. From an early age, Gehrig helped his mother with work, doing such as folding laundry. In 1910, he lived with his parents at 2266 Amsterdam Avenue in Washington Heights, in 1920, the family resided on 8th Avenue in Manhattan. His name was anglicized to Henry Louis Gehrig and he was known as Lou so that he would not be confused with his identically named father. Gehrig first garnered attention for his baseball ability while playing in a game at Cubs Park on June 26,1920. His New York School of Commerce team was playing a team from Chicagos Lane Tech High School in front of a crowd of more than 10,000 spectators. With his team leading 8–6 in the top of the inning, Gehrig hit a grand slam completely out of the major league park. Gehrig attended PS132 in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, then went to Commerce High School and he then studied at Columbia University for two years, although he did not graduate. Initially, he went to Columbia on a scholarship, where he was preparing to pursue a degree in engineering. After he played a dozen games for the Hartford Senators in the Eastern League, in 1922, Gehrig returned to collegiate sports as a fullback for the Columbia Lions football program
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Tony Lazzeri
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Anthony Michael Tony Lazzeri was an American professional baseball second baseman during the 1920s and 1930s, predominantly with the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. He was part of the famed Murderers Row Yankee batting lineup of the late 1920s, along with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and he was also the first person to hit two grand slams in one game in 1936 vs Athletics. Lazzeri was born and raised in San Francisco, California and he dropped out of school to work with his father as a boilermaker, but at the age of 18, began to play baseball professionally. After playing in minor league baseball from 1922 through 1925, Lazzeri joined the Yankees in 1926 and he was a member of the original American League All-Star team in 1933. He was nicknamed Poosh Em Up by Italian-speaking fans, from a mistranslation of an Italian phrase meaning to hit it out. Lazzeri is one of only 14 major league players to hit for the natural cycle. Lazzeri was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1991, Lazzeri was born on December 6,1903, to Augustine and Julia Lazzeri, who had emigrated from Italy. They lived in the Cow Hollow district of San Francisco, at age 15, Lazzeri was expelled from school. He began to work with his father, earning $4.50 a day, Lazzeri also played semi-professional baseball and trained to become a prizefighter. A friend of Lazzeri convinced Duffy Lewis, who managed the Salt Lake City Bees of the Pacific Coast League, Lazzeri made the team, earning $250 a month as a utility infielder. He batted.192 in 45 games, and was demoted to the Peoria Tractors of the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League in 1923 to gain more experience, Lazzeri batted.248 with 14 home runs in 135 games for Peoria, before being recalled to Salt Lake City. Starting at shortstop for the Bees in 1924, Lazzeri batted.285 with 16 home runs. However, Lewis gave the starting role to Pinky Pittenger, and sent Lazzeri to the Lincoln Links of the Western League. Returning to Salt Lake City under new manager Oscar Vitt in 1925, Lazzeri batted.355 with 60 home runs and 222 runs batted in, the most RBIs in professional baseball history. That year he became one of what are today four Pacific Coast League hitters to have had a 30 home runs,30 stolen bases season, along with Joc Pederson, Frank Demaree, and Lefty ODoul. Though Salt Lake City had an agreement with the Chicago Cubs. The Cincinnati Reds passed on Lazzeri as well, bill Essick, a scout for the New York Yankees, convinced Ed Barrow, the Yankees general manager, to sign Lazzeri. Barrow agreed after receiving reports from other scouts, including Ed Holly and Paul Krichell
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Babe Ruth
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George Herman Babe Ruth Jr. was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Ruth established many MLB batting records, including home runs, runs batted in, bases on balls, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time, in 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its first five inaugural members. At age seven, Ruth was sent to St, in 1914, Ruth was signed to play minor-league baseball for the Baltimore Orioles but was soon sold to the Red Sox. By 1916, he had built a reputation as a pitcher who sometimes hit long home runs. With regular playing time, he broke the MLB single-season home run record in 1919, after that season, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Ruth to the Yankees amid controversy. The trade fueled Bostons subsequent 86 year championship drought and popularized the Curse of the Bambino superstition, in his 15 years with New York, Ruth helped the Yankees win seven American League championships and four World Series championships. As part of the Yankees vaunted Murderers Row lineup of 1927, Ruth hit 60 home runs and he retired in 1935 after a short stint with the Boston Braves. During his career, Ruth led the AL in home runs during a season twelve times, Ruths legendary power and charismatic personality made him a larger-than-life figure in the Roaring Twenties. During his career, he was the target of press and public attention for his baseball exploits. His often reckless lifestyle was tempered by his willingness to do good by visiting children at hospitals, after his retirement as a player, he was denied a managerial job in baseball, most likely due to poor behavior during parts of his playing career. In his final years, Ruth made many appearances, especially in support of American efforts in World War II. In 1946, he became ill with cancer, and died two years later, George Herman Ruth Jr. was born in 1895 at 216 Emory Street in Pigtown, a working-class section of Baltimore, Maryland, named for its meat-packing plants. Its population included recent immigrants from Ireland, Germany and Italy, Ruths parents, George Herman Ruth, Sr. and Katherine Schamberger, were both of German American ancestry. According to the 1880 census, his parents were born in Maryland, the paternal grandparents of Ruth, Sr. were from Prussia and Hanover. Ruth, Sr. had a series of jobs, including lightning rod salesman and streetcar operator, before becoming a counterman in a combination grocery. George Ruth Jr. was born in the house of his grandfather, Pius Schamberger. Only one of young Georges seven siblings, his younger sister Mamie, many details of Ruths childhood are unknown, including the date of his parents marriage
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Earle Combs
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Earle Bryan Combs was an American professional baseball player who played his entire career for the New York Yankees. Combs batted leadoff and played center field on the Yankees fabled 1927 team. He is one of six players on that team who have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Combs led the league in triples three times and was among the top ten in the category in several other seasons. He suffered a skull and other injuries from a crash into an outfield wall in 1934. Nicknamed the Kentucky Colonel, Combs was known as a gentleman on and he remained in baseball as a coach for many years after his retirement as a player. Combs was born in Pebworth, Owsley County, Kentucky, as a child, he played baseball games with tree limbs as bats and with baseballs made out of string and the material of old shoes. He left Pebworth in 1917 to enter Eastern Kentucky State Normal School in Richmond, in those early days, Eastern prepared its students to become teachers. On completion of a program, graduates were often employed in rural one-room schools. They were often responsible for forty or more students, ranging in age six to teen-age in grades one through eight. In his first year at Eastern, he put on a performance in a faculty-student baseball game and was encouraged to join the school team by Dr. Charles Keith. He hit.591 at Eastern during his last season, after graduating from Eastern, Combs went back to his native Owsley County and taught in one-room schoolhouses in both Ida May and Levi. Combs continued to play baseball in his spare time and he played for High Splint in the Pine Mountain League and hit.444. He also played baseball for the Lexington Reos of the Bluegrass League. It was in Lexington that Combs drew the attention of the Louisville Colonels of the American Association, after scouting him, Louisville offered him a contract which provided a salary that exceeded the $37 per month he made as a teacher in Owsley County. His Louisville debut was unsettling, he committed several outfield errors, the last one gave the opposition the two runs they needed to win the game. Distraught afterward, Combs said, As I went after the dropped ball I was tempted to keep right on going, climb the fence and he had married Ruth McCollum, his high school sweetheart, the year before and was concerned about his future. Combs soon found his stride, hitting.344 in 1922 and.380 in 1923 for the Colonels and also earning a reputation for speedy ball-hawking in the outfield, in 1924, the New York Yankees won a spirited bidding war and bought Combs contract for $50,000. This was a large sum at that time, but it bore fruit for the Yankees as Combs proved an immediate success in New York
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New York World-Telegram
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The New York World-Telegram, later known as the New York World-Telegram and Sun, was a New York City newspaper from 1867 to 1966. Founded by James Gordon Bennett as The Evening Telegram in 1867, the newspaper began as the edition of The New York Herald. Following Bennett’s death, newspaper and magazine owner Frank A. Munsey purchased The Telegram in June 1920, at the time of the sale, the paper was known as The New York Telegram, and it had a circulation of 200,000. The newspaper became the World-Telegram in 1931, following the sale of the New York World by the heirs of Joseph Pulitzer to Scripps Howard, the World-Telegram enjoyed a reputation as a liberal paper for some years after the merger, based on memories of the Pulitzer-owned World. However, under Scripps Howard the paper moved steadily to the right, in 1950, the paper became the New York World-Telegram and Sun after Dewart and his family sold Scripps the remnants of another afternoon paper, the New York Sun. Early in 1966, a proposal to create New Yorks first joint operating agreement led to the merger of the World-Telegram, the intention was to produce a joint afternoon edition, with a separate morning paper to be produced by the Herald Tribune. The last edition of the World-Telegram and Sun was published on April 23,1966, but when strikes prevented the JOA from taking effect, the papers instead united in August 1966 to become the short-lived New York World Journal Tribune, which lasted only until May 5,1967. Its closure left New York City with three newspapers, The New York Times, the New York Post and the New York Daily News. Media of New York City Library of Congress New York World Telegram and Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
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Howard Ehmke
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Howard Jonathan Ehmke was a right-handed American baseball pitcher. Ehmke compiled a career record of 166-166 with a 3.75 earned run average. His greatest success was with the Red Sox, including a no-hitter, Ehmke still holds the American League record for fewest hits allowed in two consecutive starts. Ehmke also ranks sixteenth on the major league list for hitting batsmen with a pitch. Ehmke hit 137 batters in his career and led the American League in the seven times. He is best known for being the surprise starter who won Game 1 of the 1929 World Series for the Athletics at the age of 35, after retiring from baseball, he started his own company that began making tarpaulins to cover baseball diamonds during rain. Ehmke was born in Silver Creek, New York, in 1894 and he was the ninth of eleven children born to a German immigrant father and a Swedish-American mother. He moved to California as a man and graduated from Glendale High School in 1913. Ehmke began his baseball career in 1914 with the Los Angeles Angels in the Pacific Coast League. He appeared in a total of 40 games for the Angels, a bidding war developed among major league teams seeking Ehmkes services. The Pittsburgh Pirates offered the Angels $5,000 in June 1914, in July 1914, the Kansas City Packers of the Federal League entered the bidding process. The Washington Senators purchased Ehmke from the Angels, but Ehmke refused to sign the contract presented to him by the Senators, on February 13,1915, he finally signed a contract with the Buffalo Blues of the Federal League. He made his league debut on April 12,1915. He compiled an 0-2 record with a 5.53 ERA in 53-2/3 innings pitched, the Federal League folded at the end of the 1914 season, and in May 1915, Ehmke joined the Syracuse Stars of the New York State League. Ehmke appeared in 38 games for Syracuse in 1916 and compiled a 31-7 record with a 1.55 ERA. On July 28,1916, Ehmke was sold by Syracuse to the Detroit Tigers for a price reported to be the biggest sum ever paid for a pitcher in the State League and he did not appear in his first game for the Tigers until September 1916. He appeared in a total of five games for the 1916 Tigers in a short tryout, in 1917, Ehmke appeared in 35 games,25 as a starter, and compiled a 10-15 record with a 2.97 ERA. In late July 1917, sportswriter Paul Purman wrote that Ehmke had bewildering speed, an assortment of curves
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Rube Walberg
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George Elvin Walberg was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1923 through 1937 for the New York Giants, Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox. He was born in Pine City, Minnesota, in a 15-season career, Walberg posted a 155–141 record with 1085 strikeouts and a 4.16 ERA in 2644 innings, including 15 shutouts and 140 complete games. A consistent and durable pitcher, Walberg averaged 16 wins for the Philadelphia Athletics of Connie Mack from 1926 to 1932 and he also had a 1–1 mark with a 1.93 ERA for the Athletics in five World Series appearances. A good-hitting pitcher, Walberg collected a.220 batting average with four runs and 84 runs batted in. When Mack dismantled the Athletics in 1933, he was sent along with Lefty Grove and he was a spot starter and reliever with Boston during three seasons and pitched his last game at the age of forty-one. Walberg surrendered 17 home runs to Babe Ruth, more than did any other pitcher, Walberg died in Tempe, Arizona at age 82. In 2002, he was inducted into the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame
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Jack Quinn (baseball)
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John Picus Jack Quinn, born Joannes Pajkos, was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. Quinn pitched for eight teams in three leagues and made his final appearance at the age of 50. Born in Stefuró, Hungary, Quinn emigrated to America as an infant with his parents Michael Pajkos and Maria Dzjiacsko, arriving in New York on June 18,1884. His mother died near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, shortly after the arrival in the US. In 1887 Quinns father remarried, to Anastasia Tzar, Quinn spent his early years working as a swimmer and blacksmith, while playing recreational ball for mining teams. He got his start as a professional in an unusual way, while watching a semi-pro game in Connellsville, the 14-year-old Quinn threw a foul ball back from the stands to the catcher, hitting his mitt right in the middle. The visiting manager, from the town of Dunbar, was impressed by the throw. Quinn went on to spend 23 seasons in the leagues with eight different teams. He won 247 games and lost 218 games, also collecting 57 saves, Quinn debuted on April 15,1909 and he played until he was 50 years old, his final game was on July 7,1933. Quinns professional longevity enabled him to achieve several age-related milestones and he was the oldest Major League player to win a game until Jamie Moyer broke the record on April 17,2012. Quinn is also the oldest to lead his league in a major category and he is furthermore the oldest pitcher to start games in the World Series and on Opening Day. He was the oldest to hit a run in the majors, at age 46. He was the oldest person to play for the Cincinnati Reds, and at the time of his retirement, the eight teams for which he had played also constituted a record. He was also the last major leaguer who had played in the 1900s decade to formally retire, Quinn is one of only 29 players in baseball history to date who have appeared in a Major League game in four decades. Finally, he remains the oldest player to regularly, having pitched 87 1⁄3 innings in 1932 at age 48 and 49. During his career, Quinn played alongside 31 different members of the Baseball Hall of Fame and he was also one of the last pitchers in baseball permitted to throw the spitball, grandfathered in along with sixteen others reliant on the pitch when it was banned in 1920. He frequently used his spitball after he was grandfathered in, in addition to his fastball, curve, in 2006, Jack Quinn was inducted posthumously into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame. Quinn died in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, at the age of 62, diamonds in the Coalfields,21 Remarkable Baseball Players, Managers, and Umpires from Northeast Pennsylvania
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Milt Gaston
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Nathaniel Milton Gaston was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1924 to 1934. Born in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, he played for the St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators and he died at age 100 in Barnstable, Massachusetts. His older brother, Alex, was his batterymate with the 1929 Red Sox and his first roommate in the majors was Lou Gehrig when he played for the New York Yankees. Three of Babe Ruths record-setting home runs during the 1927 New York Yankees season were hit off Gaston, on July 26, July 27 and he is the major league record holder for most games under.500 in a career. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
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Ernie Nevers
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Nevers was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963. As of 2017, Nevers is the player in the history of the NFL to have scored 40 points in a single game. On November 28,1929, Nevers scored 6 touchdowns and kicked four points for the Chicago Cardinals in a 40–6 rout of the crosstown-rival Chicago Bears. Nevers attended Superior Central High School in Superior, Wisconsin and Santa Rosa High School in Santa Rosa, California, in 1920, as a senior, he led the team to the NCS Championships. In 1925, the field at Santa Rosa High School was renamed Nevers Field in his honor. Nevers went on to attend Stanford University, where he was All-American and played in the 1925 Rose Bowl against the Notre Dame and the famous Four Horsemen backfield. Having recently suffered an ankle, he played all 60 minutes in the game and rushed for 114 yards, more yardage than all the Four Horsemen combined. Coach Pop Warner called Nevers the football player without a fault, Nevers #1 jersey is retired, one of three to be retired by the school. The others are Jim Plunkett and John Elway, Nevers excelled in several sports, including basketball and baseball. In 1926 he went to Jacksonville, Florida, where he organized the Jacksonville All-Stars, the All-Stars played two exhibition games against NFL opponents, the Chicago Bears, led by Red Grange, on January 2, and the New York Giants on January 9. However, meager crowds forced the team to fold after only two games, and Nevers signed a contract with the St. Louis Browns baseball team, Nevers would have better fortune in football, though. Despite reports that Red Grange and the newly formed AFL had signed him, Neverss childhood friend, the Eskimos were unique, as they had no actual home and played all their games on the road. Many consider that if Nevers had signed with the AFL, the NFL may have driven out of business. After two seasons for Duluth, during which he played almost every minute on offense and defense, however, he returned to the NFL to play fullback and coach the Chicago Cardinals from 1929 to 1931. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of its class in 1963. ESPN ranked Nevers #25 on its Top 25 Players in College Football History, Nevers served in the military during World War II. Although too old to be drafted, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, while serving in the Pacific, he and his battalion were reported missing for several months. They were finally found on an island, where several of the men had died
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Danny MacFayden
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Daniel Knowles MacFayden was an American starting and relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1926 through 1943, he played for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates and Washington Senators. In a 17-season career, he posted a 132–159 record with 797 strikeouts and his best season was 1936, when he earned 17 victories with 86 strikeouts and a 2.87 ERA, all career bests. His money pitch was a curve ball. MacFayden was born in North Truro, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod but in 1920, his mother moved the family to Somerville and his father had died when he was four years old, and they went to live with his mother Sarahs brother, building contractor Joshua Knowles. He made a name for himself as a school athlete. He was the captain of the Somerville High School baseball team in 1923, on May 7,1924, pitching for Somerville against Everett High, MacFayden struck out between 31 and 33 batters in 17 innings while giving up only four hits. After graduating from Somerville High in 1924, he attended Hebron Academy to prepare himself for attending college and his mother wanted him to go to Dartmouth College. He played in the semi-pro Boston Twilight League in the summers of 1923 and 1924 for the Osterville team, MacFayden was signed by Boston Red Sox owner Bob Quinn after he saw him pitching in the Twilight League. He decided to give up going to Dartmouth as a pro baseball career offered him financial security and he did not play in the minor leagues but went straight to the Red Sox, making his debut on August 25,1926 against the Detroit Tigers as a reliever. He was the first pitcher in the American League to wear eyeglasses, after one more relief stint, MacFayden made his first start against the legendary Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators on September 4,1926. He lost 5–1, throwing a complete game, in 1928, he was the Boston Red Soxs Opening Day pitcher, making his season debut in Griffith Stadium in Washington, D. C. with another native New Englander, President Calvin Coolidge in attendance. In his five years with the Red Sox, he was a relatively mediocre pitcher with a team, though he did lead the league with four shutouts in 1928. In 1932, after going 1–10 to start the season, he was traded to the New York Yankees for pitchers Ivy Andrews and Hank Johnson, both pitchers were on the disabled list at the time, but the trade seemed lopsided in favor of the Red Sox. The speculation was that Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert was trying to keep MacFayden away from contending teams, Ruppert might have been thinking of MacFaydens stellar performance against the Yankees on May 24,1929, the year he led the league in shutouts. In a game he started at Fenway Park, MacFayden shutout the famed Murderers Row, throwing a four-hitter. He did load the bases with no outs one inning, but then retired the heart of the order, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, and Tony Lazzeri, striking out both Gehrig and Lazzeri. In his 17 games for The Bronx Bombers in the 1932 season,15 were starts, the Yankees post-season roster carried only six pitchers, however, and MacFayden wasnt one of them
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Earl Whitehill
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Earl Oliver Whitehill was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Detroit Tigers for the most significant portion of his career, and later with the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, consistently winning in double digits for thirteen years, left-handed Whitehill went on to become one of the top winning pitchers of all time. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Earl, as many called him, was a handsome and often temperamental pitcher who often showed up in the top 10 in hit batsmen, leading the league in his first full year,1924, when he hit 13. Whitehill averaged 14 wins each season and he never dipped below 11 wins in a full season, Whitehill made his debut on September 15,1923. He was a small left-handed pitcher, who weighed around 175 pounds, with Detroit, he came to be known as one of the most consistent pitchers in the league. From 1928 through 1932, he never had an ERA higher than 4.62 and never had one lower than 4.08, in his rookie season, Whitehill was 17–8, with a 3.86 ERA, and two shutouts. The Tigers offensive support helped, as the Tigers finished 1st in most major categories in 1923. Reduced run support became a later in his stint with Detroit. In his early years with Detroit, Whitehill was part of a rotation that included Hooks Dauss, Dutch Leonard. Whitehill, one of the top pitchers of the Roaring Twenties, had a celebrity marriage to Violet Geissinger, Geissinger was a model for Sun-Maid Raisins during the 1920s. She was known as The Sun-Maid Raisin Girl, after he was traded to Washington, for Firpo Marberry and Carl Fischer, Whitehill fit right in there, going a career-best 22–8 in his first year, with a 3.33 ERA. With Washington that year, he saw his first postseason action, however, Whitehill did his part, getting the only win of the series for Washington. In that game, he pitched a complete game shutout allowing 5 hits and 2 walks, because he didnt start until Game 3, it became his only start of the Series, and his only start of the postseason. Thus, his final postseason ERA was 0.00, tied with others for a record. Whitehill one-hit the New York Yankees on May 30,1934, the Yanks Ben Chapman broke up the no-hitter in the ninth inning. He was traded as part of a three team deal on December 10,1936, the Senators received Jack Salveson from the Chicago White Sox, who received Thornton Lee from the Indians, which is where Whitehill was headed. In Cleveland, Whitehill had two years and made a number of relief appearances. His final record with the Indians was 17–16, Whitehill signed with the Cubs in 1939, went 4–7 with a 5.14 ERA there, and was released in October 1939
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Tommy Thomas (baseball)
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Alphonse Tommy Thomas, was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball from 1926 to 1937. Thomas was born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from the Baltimore City College high school, Thomas played for the Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Browns, and Boston Red Sox. From 1926 through 1929 with the White Sox, Thomas finished in the top 10 in the American League in earned run average three times and in three times. In 1927 he led the American League with 36 games started and tied for the American League lead with 307 2/3 innings pitched, in 1926 he held opposing hitters to a.244 batting average, leading all American League pitchers. In 1928, he finished 15th in the balloting for American League Most Valuable Player, the Baltimore, Maryland, native was also a pitching star and, later, the manager of his hometown team, the Baltimore Orioles of the International League. Thomas pitched for the Orioles from 1921 to 1925, winning 24 games in 1921 and 32 contests in 1925. Thomas had held out for a salary at the start of the 1925 season. He later returned briefly to Baltimore as a pitcher in 1935 and he won 108 games and lost 56 as an Oriole pitcher, and counting his time with the Buffalo Bisons from 1918 to 1920 has a career 138–85 record in the International League. In ten seasons as a manager, his Orioles posted a 638–734 record with three winning campaigns, Thomas served as a scout for the Boston Red Sox from 1949 to 1973, except for a brief stint as general manager of Bostons American Association affiliate Minneapolis Millers. He died in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, at age 88, list of Major League Baseball career wins leaders Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
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George Uhle
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George Ernest Uhle was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he began his career with his hometown Cleveland Indians. He went on to play with the New York Giants, New York Yankees, when his career ended in 1936, he had won 200 games. His lifetime batting average of.288 is still a record for a pitcher On May 25,1929, Uhle, who was the winning pitcher, pitched twenty innings to earn his eighth win of the season with no losses. The losing pitcher, Ted Lyons pitched all 21 innings for Chicago, List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders List of Major League Baseball annual wins leaders List of Major League Baseball career hit batsmen leaders Baseball-Reference. com career statistics
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Tom Zachary
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Jonathan Thompson Walton Zachary was a professional baseball pitcher. He had a 19-year career in Major League Baseball that lasted from 1918 to 1936, Zachary is well known for giving up Babe Ruths record-setting 60th home run in 1927. Then the next year, pitching for Ruths team, the New York Yankees, he won the game of the World Series. Zachary went 12–0 for the 1929 Yankees, which is still the league record for most pitching wins without a loss in one season. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Hod Lisenbee
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Horace Milton Hod Lisenbee was a baseball pitcher whose career spanned over 28 years, although he only played eight seasons in the major leagues. Lisenbee was born on September 23,1898, in Clarksville, Tennessee, to John M. Lisenbee and Sarah Adiline Lisenbee, both of Clarksville, the second of six children. He attended Southwestern Presbyterian University, now Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and he was married to Ms. Carrie West, Lisenbee did not play baseball until he entered high school at age twenty-one. He had attended school until he was twelve, and dropped out of school to help his family survive financially. He labored for the nine years working twelve-hour days on a tobacco farm. He would run to and from work and credits this time in his life as building endurance, in his spare time, Lisenbee loved to fling rocks into the Cumberland River. At age 21, Lisenbee entered Clarksville High School, and talked his way onto the baseball team and he told the coach that he was ready to pitch, but was soon cut from the team due to his poor fielding. Soon Lisenbee moved to Memphis in an effort to advance his career and he arrived at the Memphis Chicks playing field seeking to pitch, but his services were not needed. Not to be put off, he moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi and applied to pitch for their D league team and he phoned his contact on the Memphis Chicks team and was tipped to try out for the Brookhaven baseball team. Within two days, Lisenbee pitched a game against the Vicksburg team, including nine strikeouts. In his first minor league season, he earned a 10–5 record, Lisenbee joined the Tupelo, Mississippi, minor league team of the Tri-State League in 1925, and was traded to the Memphis Chicks, minor league team of the Southern Association in 1926. At the age of twenty-eight, he was acquired by the Washington, Senators for $44,000, and got his first pitching start on April 23,1927. He led the Washington Senators to a 6–0 victory over the Boston Red Sox, one of Lisenbees notable accomplishments as a rookie was his consistency against the team dubbed Murderers Row. He faced the New York Yankees six times that year and won the first five outings against this storied team, the 1927 Yankees were the object of much praise, as they established a record setting 110–44 season. The Yankee hitting was vicious and frequently devoured pitchers in one inning, Lisenbee was 5–1 versus New York that season. In his first meeting with the Yankees, Lisenbee was called to the mound to face Babe Ruth. The Senators starting pitcher had fallen behind 3–0 in the count, Lisenbee disagreed and threw three strikes in a row to retire Ruth. Hod pitched the remaining seven and two-thirds innings for the win over the Yankees, according to Hods recollection Ruth later quipped that it looked as though he was throwing balls at the plate from out of a hole
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Lefty Stewart
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Walter Cleveland Lefty Stewart was a professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of ten seasons in Major League Baseball between 1921 and 1935 and he played for the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, and Cleveland Indians. Stewart gave up one of Babe Ruths record-setting 60 home runs during the 1927 New York Yankees season, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
