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Edward Marvin "Big Ed" Reulbach (December 1, 1882 – July 17, 1961) was a
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pitcher for the
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during their glory years of the early 1900s.


Career

Reulbach played college baseball at the
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in 1903 and 1904. He played for the
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in 1905, accumulating a 4-0 record before signing a contract with the Chicago Cubs in May. In the
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(ultimately won in six games by the
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), Reulbach shone in Game 2 at
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, giving up only one hit, a seventh-inning single to
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. This rare World Series low-hit game (there have only been five in the 100-plus years of the Series) was matched by fellow Cubs star
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in
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when he threw just the second one-hitter in Series history, surpassed by
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in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. Reulbach's best year was 1908, when he won 24 games for the
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and
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champion Cubs, their last Series championship until they won it again in 2016. He pitched two shutouts in one day against the
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on September 26, 1908. No other pitcher has ever accomplished this feat in the major leagues. In a 1976 ''
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'' magazine article, 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 on the same day (July 17) as
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and was buried in
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. Reulbach was the last surviving Chicago Cub to have played in the 1907 and 1908 World Series, their most recent world championship until 2016.


See also

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List of Major League Baseball career ERA leaders In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game). It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number of in ...
*
List of Major League Baseball career WHIP leaders In baseball statistics, walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP) is a sabermetric measurement of the number of baserunners a pitcher has allowed per inning pitched. WHIP reflects a pitcher's propensity for allowing batters to reach base, there ...
* List of Major League Baseball career shutout leaders *
List of Major League Baseball career hit batsmen leaders In baseball, hit by pitch (HBP) is a situation in which a batter or his clothing or equipment (other than his bat) is struck directly by a pitch from the pitcher; the batter is called a hit batsman (HB). A hit batsman is awarded first base, provi ...


References


External links


The Deadball Era
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