Allen Sothoron
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Born: April 27, 1893 Bradford, Ohio |
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Died: June 17, 1939 (aged 46) St. Louis, Missouri |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 17, 1914, for the St. Louis Browns | |||
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| September 6, 1926, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 91–99 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.31 | ||
| Strikeouts | 576 | ||
| Managerial record | 55-96 | ||
| Winning % | .364 | ||
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Allen Sutton Sothoron (April 27, 1893 – June 17, 1939) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. As a player, he was a spitball pitcher who spent 11 years in the Major Leagues playing for the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians and the St. Louis Cardinals. Born in Bradford, Ohio, Sothoron threw and batted right-handed, stood5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighed 182 pounds (83 kg). He attended Albright College and Juniata College.
Sothoron broke into the Major Leagues when the spitball was still legal. His best season came in 1919, when he posted a 20–13 record with a 2.20 earned run average for the Browns, finishing fifth in the American League in wins and ERA. After the spitball was outlawed following the 1919 campaign, Sothoron at first was not permitted to throw the spitter, then in mid-1920 he was added to a list of 17 spitballers in the Majors who were allowed to continue using the banned pitch. But he was never able to match his 1919 numbers. His pitching career ended in St. Louis with the National League Cardinals, where he played for his first MLB manager, Branch Rickey, and led the NL in shutouts with four in 1924, despite a medicocre 10–16 (3.57) record. During his MLB career, he appeared in 264 games pitched, and allowed 1,583 hits and 596 bases on balls in 1,582⅓ innings pitched. He struck out 576 and hurled 102 complete games.
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