Ed Reulbach
| Ed Reulbach | |||
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Born: December 1, 1882 Detroit | |||
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Died: July 17, 1961 (aged 78) Glens Falls, New York | |||
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 16, 1905, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| July 13, 1917, for the Boston Braves | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss 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.
Career
In the 1906 World Series (ultimately won in six games by the Chicago White Sox), Reulbach 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, only to be surpassed by Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.
His best year was 1908, when he won 24 games for the National League and World Series champion Cubs, their last Series championship to date. He pitched two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers on September 26, 1908. No other pitcher has ever accomplished this feat in the major leagues.
In a 1976 Esquire magazine article, 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] Reulbach was the last surviving Chicago Cub to have played in the 1908 World Series, their most recent world championship until 2016.
Reulbach played college baseball at the University of Notre Dame in 1903 and 1904.
See also
References
- ↑ "Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place". New York Times. March 28, 2004.
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 1950s.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
- The Deadball Era
| Preceded by Nap Rucker |
Brooklyn Robins Opening Day Starting pitcher 1914 |
Succeeded by Jeff Pfeffer |