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Ehmke had started only 8 games the entire season, but Connie Mack correctly concluded that Ehmke's sidearm style and his mix of control and slow pitches would keep the predominantly right-handed Cubs off balance.
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Ehmke won at least 10 games in 9 seasons and had a career record of 166-166 with an ERA of 3. 75.
In 1921, Ehmke had a record of 13-14 and an ERA of 4. 54 pitching for a team that had the highest team batting average (. 316 ) in American League history.
In 1925, Ehmke had a record of 9-20.
Though the frequency of his starts diminished after 1927, Ehmke had a winning record for the Athletics in four consecutive seasons from 1926-1929.
Ehmke and started
The biennial festival, Ways In Being Gay: Ways in Between Gender started in 1988 by then Hallwalls performance curator, Ron Ehmke, celebrated its 20th year in 2008.
Ehmke also started the final game of the 1929 World Series, holding the Cubs scoreless in the first two innings, but giving up 2 runs with 2 outs in the 3rd.
Ehmke and 8
On August 8, 1920, Ehmke shut out the Yankees 1-0 in just 1 hour ‚ 13 minutes ‚ one of the shortest games in American League history.
Ehmke and games
Ehmke began his Major League career in 1915, pitching 18 games ( mostly in relief ) for the Buffalo Blues of the Federal League.
After seeing limited action in 1916, Ehmke appeared in at least 30 games a year for the Tigers in 1917 and from 1919-1922.
Ehmke flourished in Boston, winning 20 games in 1923 and pitching a no-hitter against the Athletics on September 7,.
Ehmke lost 20 games despite pitching a league high 22 complete games, ranking 3rd in the league in strikeouts, and having a 3. 73 ERA, best among Boston's starters.
Ehmke still finished 24th in the AL MVP voting despite losing 20 games.
Ehmke and season
The no-hitter was the first for a Red Sox pitcher since Howard Ehmke in 1923, though this would prove the final highlight of his career, which would come to a premature end after the 1956 season, due to a torn muscle in his pitching arm.
Ehmke did not have a winning season in Detroit after 1919 and was twice among the American League leaders in losses for the Tigers ( 18 in 1920 and 17 in 1922 ).
After going 3-10 in the first half of 1926 with the last place Red Sox, Ehmke went 12-4 in the second half of the season with Hall of Famer Mickey Cochrane catching and A's slugger, Al Simmons, hitting. 341 behind him.
When it became obvious that the Cubs would win the pennant, Mack gave Ehmke time off near the end of the season to personally scout the Cubs for a week.
At the time, Ehmke also set a record for lowest win total during the regular season by a World Series game 1 starter.
Ehmke was 7-2 during the regular season.
Howard Ehmke retired from Major League Baseball after the 1930 season.
Ehmke and control
With no outs and 2 on in the 5th inning ‚ Yankee Ping Bodie fell for the hidden ball trick applied by Tigers ' second baseman Ralph Young .. Ehmke did have problems with his control during his tenure with the Tigers, leading the American League in 1920-1923, 1925 and 1927 for hitting batters.
Ehmke and Cubs
While playing for the Philadelphia Athletics, Ehmke struck out 13 Chicago Cubs in game one, a Series record until 1953.
The Athletics won the American League pennant in 1929, and Ehmke was the surprise starter in Game 1 of the 1929 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
Ehmke and .
* 26 March 1969-Horst Ehmke ( SPD ) succeeds Heinemann as Minister of Justice after the latter was elected to 5th President of Germany.
In 1931 Miss Leatta Ehmke ( later Leatta Trnka ) was crowned the first Kolacky Queen by Mayor Henry Westerman.
Silver Creek's best-known resident is Howard " Bob " Ehmke, the pitching hero of the 1929 World Series.
He left the band due to musical differences and was replaced by Frederik Ehmke.
The first album with Ehmke was A Twist in the Myth, which came out in 2006.
However, fellow Athletics pitchers Rube Walberg ( 17 ) and Howard Ehmke ( 13, but nine of them were with other teams ) surrendered more, and Rommel gave up the same number of Ruth home runs as teammate George Earnshaw.
Director Lee Ehmke mentioned that in the future, perhaps a slim chance will come along that will allow the return of dolphins to the Minnesota Zoo.
His 14 strikeouts as the winner of Game 3 of the 1953 Fall Classic – including striking out the side in the ninth inning – broke the Series record of 13 held by Howard Ehmke ( 1929, Game 1 ), and stood for 10 years until Sandy Koufax struck out 15 New York Yankees in the first game of the 1963 World Series ; but he was ineffective in Games 1 and 6, although he was not charged with the losses.
Howard Jonathan Ehmke ( April 24, 1894 – March 17, 1959 ) was a Major League Baseball pitcher.
Ehmke still holds the American League record for fewest hits ( one ) in two consecutive starts.
Ehmke also ranks No. 16 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.
The Detroit Tigers purchased Ehmke from the Blues on February 10, 1916.
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