23 Facts About Eddie Plank

Eddie Plank was the first left-handed pitcher to win 200 games and then 300 games, and now ranks third in all-time wins among left-handers with 326 career victories and first all-time in career shutouts by a left-handed pitcher with 66.

Philadelphia went to the World Series five times while Eddie Plank played there, but he sat out the 1910 World Series due to an injury.

Eddie Plank was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946 by the Veterans Committee.

Eddie Plank was the fourth of seven children born to Martha McCreary and David Plank.

Eddie Plank practiced pitching by throwing a baseball against his barn door, drawing lectures from his father for all the dents he left.

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In 1900, Eddie Plank signed with the Richmond Colts of the Virginia League, a minor league.

Eddie Plank won 23 games in 1903 while leading the AL in games started.

Eddie Plank faced Christy Mathewson in the first game and Joe McGinnity in the fourth game.

Eddie Plank pitched complete games in all six of his World Series starts.

Eddie Plank was a wonderful pitcher and he is a good one yet.

Eddie Plank retired in October 1917, citing stomach difficulties brought on by the stress of baseball.

Eddie Plank refused to report to New York, insisting he was retired.

Eddie Plank won 305 games in the American League, making him that league's winningest left-handed pitcher.

Eddie Plank was the winningest left-hander in baseball history until 1962, when Warren Spahn won his 327th game.

Eddie Plank was known as a finesse pitcher with a good sidearm sweeping curveball.

Eddie Plank was active on the mound before he threw a pitch, even sometimes talking to the baseball before he delivered it.

Eddie Plank was known for his long pauses on the mound, which some claimed lengthened the duration of the games in which he pitched.

Friendly by nature, Eddie Plank did the unusual by taking time to mentor the rookie pitchers on the Athletics' staff, and he befriended Louis Van Zelst, a hunchback who served as the team's mascot.

Eddie Plank pitched the 1918 season for the Steelton club of the Bethlehem Steel League, an industrial baseball league.

Eddie Plank lost the ability to speak, and by the 24th, no one expected him to recover.

In 1943, former teammate Eddie Collins remembered Plank as the greatest pitcher in baseball.

Eddie Plank was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946 and voted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1972.

Eddie Plank is mentioned in the 1949 poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash.