James Charles Lyle (July 24, 1900 – October 10, 1977) was a professional

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

player. He was a right-handed

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 ...

for one season (1925) with the Washington Senators. For his career, he did not record a decision and compiled a 6.00

earned run average In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the average of earned runs allowed 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 ...

with 3

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s in 3

innings pitched In baseball, innings pitched (IP) are the number of innings a pitcher has completed, measured by the number of batters and baserunners that are put out while the pitcher is on the pitching mound in a game. Three outs made is equal to one innin ...

. An alumnus of

Mississippi State University Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a public land-grant research university adjacent to Starkville, Mississippi. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Unive ...

, he was born in

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and died in

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at the age of 76.

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1900 births 1977 deaths Washington Senators (1901–1960) players Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Mississippi Ardmore Snappers players Greenville Spinners players Okmulgee Drillers players Augusta Tygers players Williamsport Grays players Birmingham Barons players Charlotte Hornets (baseball) players Jacksonville Tars players Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball players People from Lake, Mississippi {{US-baseball-pitcher-1900s-stub