Jack Chesbro
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John Dwight Chesbro was an American professional baseball pitcher. Nicknamed "Happy Jack", Chesbro played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, the New York Highlanders, and the Boston Red Sox of Major League B
Chesbro with the Highlanders
A photographic montage of American League teams and players in 1903
Chesbro pitching for the Highlanders
Chesbro's 1909–1911 American Tobacco Company baseball card
The New York Highlanders' 1903 season was the team's first. The team was founded as a replacement in the American League for the defunct Baltimore Orioles, was managed by Clark Griffith and played its
Jack Chesbro
…refused to participate in a postseason series, Dreyfuss released Chesbro from the Pirates. Chesbro pitched the Highlanders' first game. He finished the 1903 season with a 21–15 record. Chesbro began throwing a spitball in the 1904 season, which he learned from Elmer Stricklett, the inventor of the spitball. Chesbro…
The team
The 1903 New York Highlanders