Edwin John "Cy" Pieh (September 29, 1886 – September 12, 1945) was a

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pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

who played from to with the

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. He batted and threw right-handed. His nickname "Cy" is short for "Cyclone" because his corkscrew style of pitching was said to look like came out of a cyclone. He was born in

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, and his family moved to

Enderlin, North Dakota Enderlin is a city in Cass and Ransom counties in the State of North Dakota. The population was 881 at the 2020 census. History Enderlin was founded in 1891. One of the oldest buildings in town, the Robert Lindemann House, was built in 1913 and ...

when he was a child. He died in

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and was buried in Enderlin.

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