Howard Ehmke
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Born: April 24, 1894 Silver Creek, New York |
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Died: March 17, 1959 (aged 64) Philadelphia |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 12, 1915, for the Buffalo Blues | |||
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| May 22, 1930, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 166–166 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.75 | ||
| Strikeouts | 1,030 | ||
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Howard Jonathan Ehmke (April 24, 1894 – March 17, 1959) was a right-handed American baseball pitcher. He played professional baseball for 16 years from 1914 to 1930, including 15 seasons in Major League Baseball pitcher for the Buffalo Blues (1915), Detroit Tigers (1916–1917, 1919–1922), Boston Red Sox (1923–1926), and Philadelphia Athletics (1926–1930).
Ehmke compiled a career win–loss record of 166-166 with a 3.75 earned run average (ERA). His greatest success was with the Red Sox, including a no-hitter and his only 20-win season in 1923. Ehmke still holds the American League record for fewest hits allowed (one) in two consecutive starts. Ehmke also ranks sixteenth on the all-time major league list for hitting batsmen with a pitch. Ehmke hit 137 batters in his career and led the American League in the category seven times, including a career-high 23 in 1922. He is best known for being the surprise starter who won Game 1 of the 1929 World Series for the Athletics at the age of 35.
After retiring from baseball, he started his own company that began making tarpaulins to cover baseball diamonds during rain.
Ehmke was born in Silver Creek, New York, in 1894. He was the ninth of eleven children born to a German immigrant father and a Swedish-American mother. He moved to California as a young man and graduated from Glendale High School in 1913.
Ehmke began his professional baseball career in 1914 with the Los Angeles Angels in the Pacific Coast League. In May and June 1914, he put together a streak of eight consecutive victories and became the "phenom" of the PCL, described as the best looking prospect, in the pitching sense, that the Pacific Coast league ever has possessed." He appeared in a total of 40 games for the Angels and compiled a 12-11 record with a 2.79 earned run average (ERA).
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