Ed Reulbach

Infobox MLB retired
name=Ed Reulbach
position=Pitcher

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bgcolor1=black
bgcolor2=black
textcolor1=white
textcolor2=white
bats=Right
throws=Right
birthdate=December 1, 1882
Detroit, Michigan
deathdate=death date and age|1961|7|17|1882|12|1
Glen Falls, New York
debutdate= May 16
debutyear= 1905
debutteam= Chicago Cubs
finaldate=July 13
finalyear=1917
finalteam= Boston Braves
stat1label=Pitching record
stat1value=182-106
stat2label=Earned run average
stat2value=2.28
stat3label=Strikeouts
stat3value=1137
teams=
* Chicago Cubs (1905-1913)
* Brooklyn Dodgers/Robins (1913-1914)
* Newark Pepper (1914)
* Boston Braves (1916-1917)
highlights=

Edward Marvin "Big Ed" Reulbach (December 1, 1882 – July 17, 1961) was a major league baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs during their Glory Years of the early 1900s.

His best year was 1908, when he won 24 games for the National League and World Series champion Cubs, their last Series win as of the 2007 season.

His single most impressive performance came in the 1906 Series against the cross-town rival Chicago White Sox. In a Series ultimately won in 6 Games by the Pale Hose, Reulbach nonetheless shone in Game 2 at South Side Park, giving up only one hit, a seventh-inning single to George Rohe. This rare World Series low-hit game (there have only been 5 in the 100-plus years of the Series) was matched by fellow Cubs star Claude Passeau in 1945 when he threw just the second one-hitter in Series history.

He pitched two complete game shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers on September 26, 1908. No other pitcher has ever accomplished this feat in the major leagues. Reulbach's performance still stands as an achievement that will never be forgotten.

In an article in 1976 in Esquire magazine, sportswriter Harry Stein published an "All Time All-Star Argument Starter," consisting of five ethnic baseball teams. Reulbach was the right-handed pitcher on Stein's Jewish team, though Reulbach was, in fact, Roman Catholic and is buried in Montclair, New Jersey's Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Cemetery.

He died in 1961 and was buried in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair. cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place |url= |quote=Some New Jersey cemeteries almost seem to specialize. At Immaculate Conception Cemetery in Upper Montclair are the graves of four star athletes. Angelo Bertelli, the Notre Dame quarterback who won the 1943 Heisman Trophy, is there. So is Mule Haas, who played outfield in three consecutive World Series for the Philadelphia Athletics. Big Ed Reulbach, who pitched in the Chicago Cubs' last World Series victory in 1908, is there, too, as is Bob Hooper, who pitched for three major league teams in the 1950's. |publisher=New York Times |date=March 28, 2004 |accessdate=2007-08-21 ]

Reulbach played college baseball at the University of Notre Dame in 1903 and 1904.

References

ee also

* List of Major League Baseball leaders in career wins
* MLB All-Time Hit Batsmen List

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/reulbed01.shtml Ed Reulbach career statistics]
* [http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Reulbach.Ed.Obit.html The Deadball Era]