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'''Gabriel Brühl''' (dead 1743) was a well-known robber in the then [[Duchy of Limburg]], whose criminal career started in the 1720s and ended with his being hanged in [[1743]]. |
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|name=Spud Chandler |
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|position=[[Pitcher]] |
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|bats=Right |
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|throws=Right |
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|birthdate={{birth date|1907|9|12}}<br>{{city-state|Commerce|Georgia}} |
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|deathdate={{death date and age|1990|1|9|1907|9|12}}<br>{{city-state|South Pasadena|Florida}} |
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|debutdate=[[May 6]] |
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|debutyear={{by|1937}} |
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|debutteam=[[New York Yankees]] |
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|finaldate=[[September 26]] |
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|finalyear={{by|1947}} |
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|finalteam=[[New York Yankees]] |
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|stat1label=[[Win-Loss record]] |
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|stat1value=109-43 |
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|stat2label=[[Earned run average]] |
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|stat2value=2.84 |
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|stat3label=[[Strikeouts]] |
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|stat3value=614 |
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* [[New York Yankees]] ({{by|1937}}-{{by|1947}}) |
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|highlights=<nowiki></nowiki> |
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* 4x [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] selection (1942, 1943, 1946, 1947) |
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* 3x [[World Series]] champion ([[1941 World Series|1941]], [[1943 World Series|1943]], [[1947 World Series|1947]]) |
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* 1943 [[AL MVP]] |
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'''Spurgeon Ferdinand "Spud" Chandler''' ([[September 12]] [[1907]] - [[January 9]] [[1990]]) was an [[United States|American]] right-handed [[starting pitcher]] in [[Major League Baseball]] who played his entire career for the [[New York Yankees]] from 1937 through 1947. He was named the [[American League]]'s [[MLB Most Valuable Player Award|Most Valuable Player]] in {{by|1943}} after anchoring the team's pitching staff with 20 [[win (baseball)|wins]] and only 4 losses as New York won its third consecutive pennant; his 1.64 [[earned run average]] in that season was the lowest by any major league pitcher between 1920 and 1967, and remains a Yankees team record. In eleven seasons, he never suffered a losing record; with a total of 109 wins and 43 losses, his career winning percentage of .717 is the highest of any pitcher with at least 100 victories. |
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Brühl was a remote ancestor of the Belgian-French detective writer [[Georges Simenon]], who used "Gabriel Brühl" as one of his many pen names. |
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==Biography== |
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Chandler attended the [[University of Georgia]], near his birthplace and hometown of [[Royston, Georgia]], and played [[American football|football]] as a [[running back|halfback]], throwing a touchdown pass to help defeat [[Yale University|Yale]] in a 1929 game dedicating a new stadium; he also pitched for the baseball team and competed on the [[Athletics (track and field)|track]] team. He was a brother of the [[Alpha Gamma Rho]] fraternity and graduated with a degree in [[agriculture]]. He spent five seasons in the Yankees organization after signing with the team, his favorite since boyhood. He finally made his major league debut at age 29 on [[May 6]], {{by|1937}}, and went 7-4 that season with a 2.84 ERA and 6 [[complete game]]s (including 2 [[shutout]]s). The following year he was 14-5, and in 1939 he was 3-0 in 11 relief appearances; but although the Yankees won the [[World Series]] in each of the three years, Chandler did not appear in the postseason. Bothered by injuries during his early career, after records of 8-7 and 10-4 in 1940 and 1941 he improved further to 16-5 in {{by|1942}}, finishing third in the AL with a 2.38 ERA and earning his first of four [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] selections; he was the All-Star Game's winning pitcher in 1942. He had one start in the World Series each year, but lost both times, as the Yankees won in 1941 and lost in 1942. |
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By far his most outstanding year came in 1943. That year, in addition to his record-setting ERA, he led the league with 20 wins in 30 starts, and also with 20 complete games and 5 shutouts. In 253 innings pitched, he gave up 46 earned runs, only 5 of which came via [[home run]]s. His 134 [[strikeout]]s were 3rd in the league, and equaled his combined total of the previous two seasons; he made the AL All-Star team for the second time. He finally had a successful [[1947 World Series|World Series]], pitching two complete game victories including a shutout in the final Game 5, as the Yankees defeated the [[St. Louis Cardinals]]. Winning the MVP award, he beat out [[Luke Appling]] of the [[Chicago White Sox]], who had won his second [[batting average|batting]] title with a .328 mark, along with 192 hits, 33 doubles, and an [[on base percentage]] of .419; he also drove in 80 runs and stole 28 bases. Chandler remains the only Yankee pitcher to win the Most Valuable Player award. |
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After one start in 1944, he entered [[World War II]] military service with the [[United States Army|Army]] for nearly all of the next two seasons. He returned in {{by|1946}} with another All-Star season, going 20-8 with a 2.10 ERA (2nd in the league to [[Hal Newhouser]]) and a career-high 138 strikeouts. That year he also had 20 complete games for the second time in his career. He earned his last All-Star selection in {{by|1947}}, but finished the year with only a 9-5 record as injuries ended his career at age 40. He pitched for the last time in the historic [[1947 World Series]] against the [[Los Angeles Dodgers|Brooklyn Dodgers]], pitching two relief innings in a Game 3 loss. In four World Series, he had a 2-2 record with a 1.62 ERA, 16 strikeouts, and 1 shutout. |
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Over his career Chandler was 109-43 in 211 games (109 complete, 26 shutouts), with a 2.84 ERA. He had 614 career strikeouts and gave up 64 home runs and 1327 hits. As a hitter, he had a batting average of .201, with a .234 on base percentage; he had 110 hits in 548 [[at bat]]s in his career, and on [[July 26]], {{by|1940}} had two home runs including a [[grand slam (baseball)|grand slam]]. He later [[manager (baseball)|managed]] in the minor leagues, became pitching coach with the [[Oakland Athletics|Kansas City Athletics]] in 1957-58, and scouted for several teams before retiring in 1984. He was inducted into the [[Georgia Sports Hall of Fame]] in 1969 and into the [[Franklin County Sports Hall of Fame]] in 1997. |
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===Death=== |
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Chandler died at age 82 in [[South Pasadena, Florida]]. He was married and had two sons. He was inducted into the University of Georgia Circle of Honor in 2000. |
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==See also== |
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* [[List of Major League Baseball ERA champions]] |
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* [[List of Major League Baseball wins champions]] |
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==External links== |
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*{{baseball-reference|id=c/chandsp01}} |
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*[http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?path=/SportsRecreation/IndividualandTeamSports/Baseball&id=h-2950 The New Georgia Encyclopedia] |
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*[http://www.gshf.org Georgia Sports Hall of Fame] |
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{{succession box | title=[[List of Major League Baseball ERA champions|American League ERA Champion]] | before= [[Ted Lyons]] | years=1943 | after= [[Dizzy Trout]]}} |
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| title = [[List of Major League Baseball wins champions|American League Wins Champion]] |
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| years = 1943<br>(with [[Dizzy Trout]]) |
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| before = [[Tex Hughson]] |
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| after = [[Hal Newhouser]] |
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{{succession box | before = [[Joe Gordon]] | title = [[MLB Most Valuable Player Award|American League Most Valuable Player]] | years = 1943 | after = [[Hal Newhouser]]}} |
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{{AL MVPs}} |
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{{1941 New York Yankees}} |
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Revision as of 11:50, 11 October 2008
Gabriel Brühl (dead 1743) was a well-known robber in the then Duchy of Limburg, whose criminal career started in the 1720s and ended with his being hanged in 1743.
Brühl was a remote ancestor of the Belgian-French detective writer Georges Simenon, who used "Gabriel Brühl" as one of his many pen names.
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