Edwin Americus Rommel was an American right-handed pitcher and umpire in Major League Baseball.
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19 Facts About Eddie Rommel
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Eddie Rommel spent his entire playing career with the Philadelphia Athletics.
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Eddie Rommel is considered to be one of the earlier adaptors of the modern knuckleball.
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Eddie Rommel was picked up by Philadelphia after manager Connie Mack saw him start both ends of a doubleheader for Newark.
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In 1922, Eddie Rommel led the American League in wins with 27 despite playing for a team that finished seventh in the league and won only 65 games.
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Eddie Rommel won 20 games twice for the Athletics, in 1922 and 1925.
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Eddie Rommel made many relief appearances during his career, leading the AL in relief wins in three different seasons.
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Eddie Rommel surrendered ten home runs to Babe Ruth, tying him for tenth place.
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However, fellow Athletics pitchers Rube Walberg and Howard Ehmke surrendered more, and Eddie Rommel gave up the same number of Ruth home runs as teammate George Earnshaw.
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The game might have been shorter, but Eddie Rommel lost the lead in the seventh, ninth and 16th innings.
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The 29 hits allowed by Eddie Rommel remain a major league record, as do Cleveland's Johnny Burnett's nine hits.
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Eddie Rommel was given his unconditional release by the Athletics at the end of the 1932 season.
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Eddie Rommel turned to umpiring in the New York–Penn League in 1936 and the International League in 1937, moving up to the American League in 1938, and remained on the league staff through the 1959 season.
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Eddie Rommel noted that he only threw at a batter once during his own career, on the insistence of catcher Cy Perkins, and that the runner eventually scored and cost him the game.
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Eddie Rommel worked in the World Series in 1943 and 1947, serving as crew chief the first time, and becoming the third man to appear in the Series both as a player and as an umpire.
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Eddie Rommel umpired in the All-Star Game six times: 1939,1943,1946,1950,1954 and 1958; he called balls and strikes in the 1943, '54 and '58 contests.
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Eddie Rommel was the second base umpire for the one-game playoff to decide the 1948 AL pennant.
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Eddie Rommel was the first umpire in Major League history to wear glasses in a regular season game.
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