Urban Shocker

Urban Shocker

Infobox MLB retired
name=Urban Shocker
position=Pitcher


bgcolor1=#2a1301
bgcolor2=#fa5905
textcolor1=white
textcolor2=white
bats=Right
throws=Right
birthdate=August 22, 1890
city-state|Cleveland|Ohio
deathdate=death date and age|1928|9|6|1890|6|28
city-state|Denver|Colorado
debutdate= April 24
debutyear= 1916
debutteam= New York Yankees
finaldate=May 30
finalyear=1928
finalteam=New York Yankees
stat1label=Win-Loss
stat1value=187-117
stat2label=ER.A
stat2value=3.17
stat3label=Strike outs
stat3value=983
teams=
* New York Yankees (1915-1916, 1925-1928)
* St. Louis Browns (1918-1924)

highlights=
* Won 20 or more games in four consecutive seasons
* In by|1921, had a league leading 27 wins
* In by|1922, led the AL in strikeouts with 149

Urban James Shocker (August 22 1890September 9 1928), born Urbain Jacques Shockor in Cleveland, Ohio, was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees and St. Louis Browns from by|1916 to by|1928.

The right-handed hurler had four consecutive 20-game-winning seasons with the Browns in the early 1920s. During those four years, he was one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball. Urban was the last Yankees pitcher to legally throw a spitball. He, and a handful of other pitchers, was grandfathered into the practice after it was banned by baseball in 1920.

After his release from the Yankees in 1928, Shocker entered an exhibition tournament in Denver. He pitched in just one game on August 6 against a team from Cheyenne, Wyoming and fared poorly in that outing. Around this time, he contracted pneumonia and was hospitalized shortly thereafter. He died in Denver, Colorado from a weakened heart caused by the disease.

ee also

* List of Major League Baseball leaders in career wins
* List of Major League Baseball saves champions
* List of Major League Baseball strikeout champions
* List of Major League Baseball wins champions

External links

*Baseballstats |mlb= |espn= |br=s/shockur01 |fangraphs=1011918 |cube=S/urban-shocker
* [http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/library/columns/rw_050609.htm Tribute to the forgotten spitballer]
* [http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Shocker.Urban.Obit.html The Deadball Era]


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