Ed Walsh
| Ed Walsh | |
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 Ed Walsh, 1911
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| Born: May 14, 1881 Plains , United States 
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| Died on: May 26, 1959 Pompano Beach , United States
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| Suggested: Right | Threw: Right |
| Debut in Major League Baseball | |
| May 7, 1904 with the Chicago White Sox | |
| Last MLB assignment | |
| September 11, 1917 with the Boston Braves | |
| MLB statistics (until end of career) |
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| Win-loss | 195-126 |
| Earned Run Average | 1.82 |
| Strikeouts | 1.736 |
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As a manager
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 Baseball Hall of Fame
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| Recorded | 1946 |
| Special selection | Veterans Committee |
Edward Augustine "Ed" Walsh (born May 14, 1881 in Plains , Pennsylvania , † May 26, 1959 in Pompano Beach , Florida ) was an American baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball . His nickname was Big Ed .
biography
The right-handed pitcher Ed Walsh began his career in the American League on May 7, 1904 with the Chicago White Sox . However, Walsh was only able to gain a regular place in the team in 1906. That year he was able to win 17 games in 13 defeats and help the White Sox to move into the World Series against the Chicago Cubs . Ten of his seventeen wins in the regular season were shutouts. In the World Series, he only had two basehits in game two with 12 strikeouts, and he was also able to win the fifth game.
Walsh had his biggest season in 1908. He won 40 games and only 15 defeats, accounting for 45.5% of Chicago's 88 wins. 269 strikeouts, 6 saves and an ERA of 1.42 were also outstanding statistical values for this period.
Walsh also had two no-hitters . On May 26, 1907, he succeeded against the New York Highlanders , but this game only went over five innings . Walsh threw a no-hitter in a game over nine innings on August 27, 1911 against the Boston Red Sox in a 5-0 win.
However, he had already had problems with his limb in 1909, which were certainly due to the overexertion in previous seasons. So his performance got weaker and weaker, so that he was released by the White Sox in 1916. In 1917 he tried a comeback in the National League with the Boston Braves , which, however, only lasted 18 innings.
After that year he threw and managed minor league baseball . In 1922 he served as an umpire in the American League for a year . In 1924 he was responsible for three games as a manager for the White Sox, for which he worked as a coach for most of the 1920s.
His ERA of 1.84 over his entire career is the lowest in the history of the MLB, but cannot be officially counted as these statistics were only kept regularly from 1913.
In 1946, Ed Walsh was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee . In 1959 he died at the age of 78.
His stations as a player
- 1904-1916 Chicago White Sox
- 1917 Boston Braves
His stations as a manager
- 1924 Chicago White Sox
Web links
- Player information and statistics from ESPN or Baseball-Reference or Fangraphs or The Baseball Cube (English)
- Data as a manager (English)
- Biography Ed Walsh (English)
- Ed Walsh in the Hall of Fame (English)
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| SURNAME | Walsh, Ed |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walsh, Edward Augustine (full name); Big Ed (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American baseball player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plains , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1959 |
| Place of death | Pompona Beach , Florida |