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By Alan H. Levy

George Edward “Rube” Waddell used to be one of many zaniest characters ever to play baseball. The mythical Connie Mack, who observed a variety of playing cards in the course of his approximately seven decade stint within the majors, as soon as saw that no different screwball he ever observed may perhaps carry a candle to Rube. Mack additionally acknowledged that Rube’s curveball was once the easiest he’d ever noticeable. certainly, Waddell was once one of many maximum pitchers within the background of the sport. Rube gained 191 video games in thirteen seasons, had 4 instantly 20-win seasons for Mack and the Philadelphia A’s, and claimed six consecutive strikeout titles. In 1904 he struck out 349 batters, a list that held for 6 many years. This biography lines his formative years in western Pennsylvania, the matches and begins of his first years in specialist baseball, his massive years with the A’s, and his next fade into obscurity and his early loss of life in a health facility on April Fool’s Day, 1914.

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