Howard Ehmke

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Add: Creek New York in 1894 He was the ninth of eleven children of Charles Ehmke a German immigrant who owned a sawmill in the village and Julia. Add: 1916 and compiled a 31 7 record with a 1 55 ERA leading the Stars to the league title and setting a New York State League record with 195 strikeouts Add: starter and compiled a 10 15 record with a 2 97 ERA On September 27 he was one of the players chosen for an all star team alongside Ty Cobb Walter Johnson Joe Jackson and Tris Speaker that played the Red Sox at Fenway Park in a benefit for the family of the late Boston sportswriter Tim Murnane he pitched three scoreless innings in a 2 0 loss In late July 1917 sportswriter Paul Purman wrote that Ehmke had bewildering Add: Pratt and Rip Collins Ehmke flourished in Boston winning 20 games in Facing the Tigers for the first time on May 18 he hit Cobb on the knee with a fastball Cobb was waiting for him under the stands after the game and the two fought On September 7 of that year he no hit his future team. Add: Mickey Cochrane catching and A's slugger Al Simmons hitting 341 behind him In January 1927 Ehmke was among the players who testified in Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis s inquiry into Swede Risberg s charges that Chicago White Sox players had paid Detroit pitchers to ease up in a September 1917 series he denied the charges and was not implicated That July after he failed to retire a batter against Boston on July 4 Mack suspended him for two weeks for not being in condition to pitch Though the frequency of his starts diminished after 1927 Ehmke had a. Add: Ehmke flourished in Boston winning 20 games in Facing the Tigers for the first time on May 18 he hit Cobb on the knee with a fastball.

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