Howard John Ehmke was an American baseball pitcher.
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27 Facts About Howard Ehmke
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Howard Ehmke played professional baseball for 16 years from 1914 to 1930, including 15 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Buffalo Blues, Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, and Philadelphia Athletics.
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Howard Ehmke still holds the American League record for fewest hits allowed in two consecutive starts.
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Howard Ehmke hit 137 batters in his career and led the American League in the category seven times, including a career-high 23 in 1922.
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Howard Ehmke is best known for being the surprise starter who won Game 1 of the 1929 World Series for the Athletics at the age of 35.
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Howard Ehmke was the ninth of eleven children born to a German immigrant father and a Swedish-American mother.
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Howard Ehmke moved to California as a young man and graduated from Glendale High School in 1913.
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Howard Ehmke began his professional baseball career in 1914 with the Los Angeles Angels in the Pacific Coast League.
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Howard Ehmke made his major league debut on April 12,1915, and appeared in 18 games, only two as a starter, for Buffalo.
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Federal League folded at the end of the 1915 season, and in May 1916, Howard Ehmke joined the Syracuse Stars of the New York State League.
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Howard Ehmke missed the 1918 season due to wartime service in the United States Navy.
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Howard Ehmke was stationed at a submarine base on the West Coast of the United States.
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Howard Ehmke did have problems with control during his tenure with the Tigers, leading the American League in batters hit by a pitch five times and was among the top three in bases on balls four times.
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Howard Ehmke followed the performance up with a one-hitter against the Yankees four days later, with the only hit in that game a ground ball that bounced off the third baseman's chest.
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Howard Ehmke still holds the American League record for fewest hits allowed in two consecutive games.
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Howard Ehmke finished 15th in the American League Most Valuable Player voting for 1924 and again led the league's pitchers with an 8.
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Howard Ehmke lost 20 games despite pitching a league high 22 complete games, ranking third in the league in strikeouts, and having a 3.
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Howard Ehmke finished 24th in the AL MVP voting despite losing 20 games.
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Howard Ehmke appeared in 11 games, eight as a starter, and was out for three weeks due to a sore arm.
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Howard Ehmke accepted the decision, but told Mack that he believed he had one more game left in him.
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Howard Ehmke told Ehmke to scout the Chicago Cubs, who were running away with the National League, on their last East Coast trip of the season — and be ready to pitch Game 1 of the World Series.
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Howard Ehmke believed that, with a month's rest, Ehmke's arm would hold up well.
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Howard Ehmke started the final game of the 1929 World Series, holding the Cubs scoreless in the first two innings, but giving up two runs with two outs in the third inning.
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Howard Ehmke was brought back for the 1930 season, but was released on May 31,1930, after appearing in three games with an 11.
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Howard Ehmke made sales in 1926 to the University of Pennsylvania for Franklin Field and to the operators of a stadium in Chicago and took orders from three more baseball teams and the University of Michigan for Michigan Stadium.
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Howard Ehmke had a plant in Detroit, and later Philadelphia, where he manufactured the tarpaulins, later expanding his business to tents, flags and banners in the 1930s, and into defense work, including canvas covers for naval guns, during World War II.
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