Bert Cole | |||
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Pitcher | |||
Born: San Francisco, California |
July 1, 1896|||
Died: May 30, 1975 San Mateo, California |
(aged 78)|||
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MLB debut | |||
April 19, 1921, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
September 18, 1927, for the Chicago White Sox | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Win–loss record | 28–32 | ||
Earned run average | 4.67 | ||
Strikeouts | 119 | ||
Teams | |||
Albert George Cole (July 1, 1896 – May 30, 1975) was an American baseball pitcher.
A native of San Francisco, he played professional baseball for 17 years from 1919 to 1935, including six seasons in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers from 1921 to 1925, Cleveland Indians in 1925, and Chicago White Sox in 1927. In six major league seasons, he appeared in 177 games and compiled a 28–32 record and 4.67 earned run average (ERA). In 1924, he hit Bob Meusel with a pitch, triggering a riot that led to the Tigers' forfeiture of the game.
Cole also played 12 seasons in the Pacific Coast League for the Seattle Rainiers and Sacramento Senators (1919), San Francisco Seals (1920), Mission Reds (1926), Portland Beavers and Seattle Indians (1928), Mission Reds (1929–1933), and San Francisco Seals (1935). In 11 minor league seasons, he appeared in 346 games and compiled a 151–121 record and a 4.16 ERA.
Cole was born in San Francisco in 1896.
Cole began his professional career in 1919 with the Seattle Rainiers and Sacramento Senators. He also spent part of the 1919 season playing for the Mare Island Shipbuiders club. He spent most of 1920 with the Tacoma Tigers, and had a 24–7 win-loss record with them. He was then promoted to the San Francisco Seals and had a 5–1 record and a 1.86 earned run average (ERA) in 16 games during the 1920 season.Ty Cobb watched Cole pitch a game in October 1920 and praised Cole's "size and action," noting that he liked the way Cole mixed his pitches, "slowing up his delivery at times just enough to get the hitters off their stride, and breaking a curve ball over just when they were set for the fast one."