Ed Reulbach
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| Ed Reulbach | ||
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| Pitcher | ||
| Born: December 1, 1882 | ||
| Died: July 17, 1961 (aged 78) | ||
| Batted: Right | Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | ||
| May 16, 1905 for the Chicago Cubs |
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| Final game | ||
| July 13, 1917 for the Boston Braves |
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| Career statistics | ||
| Pitching record | 182-106 | |
| Earned run average | 2.28 | |
| Strikeouts | 1137 | |
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Edward Marvin "Big Ed" Reulbach (December 1, 1882 – July 17, 1961) was a major league baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs during their Glory Years of the early 1900s.
His best year was 1908, when he won 24 games for the National League and World Series champion Cubs, their last Series win as of the 2007 season.
His single most impressive performance came in the 1906 Series against the cross-town rival Chicago White Sox. In a Series ultimately won in 6 Games by the Pale Hose, Reulbach nonetheless shone in Game 2 at South Side Park, giving up only one hit, a seventh-inning single to George Rohe. This rare World Series low-hit game (there have only been 5 in the 100-plus years of the Series) was matched by fellow Cubs star Claude Passeau in 1945 when he threw just the second one-hitter in Series history.
He pitched two complete game shutouts on September 26, 1908. No other pitcher ever accomplished this in the major leagues; however, since the "Merkle Boner" had occurred three days earlier, Reulbach's achievement is all but forgotten.
In an article in 1976 in Esquire magazine, sportswriter Harry Stein published an "All Time All-Star Argument Starter," consisting of five ethnic baseball teams. Reulbach was the right-handed pitcher on Stein's Jewish team, though Reulbach was, in fact, Roman Catholic and is buried in Montclair, New Jersey's Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Cemetery.
He died in 1961 and was buried in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair. [1]
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- ^ "Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place", New York Times, March 28, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-08-21. "Some New Jersey cemeteries almost seem to specialize. At Immaculate Conception Cemetery in Upper Montclair are the graves of four star athletes. Angelo Bertelli, the Notre Dame quarterback who won the 1943 Heisman Trophy, is there. So is Mule Haas, who played outfield in three consecutive World Series for the Philadelphia Athletics. Big Ed Reulbach, who pitched in the Chicago Cubs' last World Series victory in 1908, is there, too, as is Bob Hooper, who pitched for three major league teams in the 1950's."
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| Preceded by Nap Rucker |
Brooklyn Robins Opening Day Starting pitcher 1914 |
Succeeded by Jeff Pfeffer |
