23 Facts About Gus Weyhing

Gus Weyhing holds the record for most batters hit in a career, with 277, and was the last major league pitcher to play without a baseball glove.

Gus Weyhing was born on September 29,1866, in Louisville, Kentucky, to immigrant parents from Wurttemberg, Germany.

Gus Weyhing was listed at 5 feet 10 inches tall and 145 pounds.

Gus Weyhing had a younger brother, John Weyhing, who pitched in the major leagues, and four older siblings.

In January 1886, Gus Weyhing signed a contract with the Charleston Seagulls of the Southern League.

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Gus Weyhing started his MLB career in 1887 with the National League's Philadelphia Quakers, though this was limited to a pair of exhibition appearances against the American Association's Philadelphia Athletics.

Gus Weyhing led the league in those categories the next year, with 56 wild pitches and 42 HBP.

On July 6,1888, during a game in Cincinnati, Gus Weyhing left the field in protest of an umpire's call, earning him a $200 fine.

Gus Weyhing walked one batter, and another reached base on an error.

In 1890, Gus Weyhing signed with the Brooklyn Ward's Wonders of the Players League.

Gus Weyhing was ejected from a late-season start against Buffalo and then arrested for disorderly conduct when he drunkenly confronted the umpire after the game.

Gus Weyhing struggled to adapt to changes made to the National League playing field in 1893, chief of which was the elimination of the "pitcher's box" 50 feet from home plate and its replacement with the pitcher's plate 60 feet, 6 inches from home.

In 1895, Gus Weyhing made three consecutive starts for three separate clubs—the Philadelphia Phillies, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and his hometown Louisville Colonels—a unique feat until Jaime Garcia replicated it in 2017.

Gus Weyhing pitched two full seasons with the Washington Senators in 1898 and 1899, before spending the next two seasons on four other major league clubs.

Gus Weyhing returned to the minors for the 1902 and 1903 seasons.

Gus Weyhing made a short-lived minor league comeback in 1910, with stints as a player and manager in the Western Association, and a two-week tenure as a Texas League umpire.

Gus Weyhing's performance declined after that, although he stayed in the majors until 1901.

Gus Weyhing's adjusted ERA+ totals were over 100 every season from 1888 to 1892; they were below 100 for the rest of his career.

Gus Weyhing had a relatively long career for a 19th century pitcher and thus is still on the MLB career leaderboards in many pitching categories.

Gus Weyhing holds the MLB record for the most career hit batsmen, with 277.

Gus Weyhing is tied for fifth all-time in most career wild pitches.

Gus Weyhing married his wife, Mollie, in Jeffersonville, Indiana in November 1888; they divorced in 1900.

Gus Weyhing spent his post-baseball years in Louisville, where he worked as a policeman, a saloonkeeper, and a night watchman for the Louisville Water Company.