16 Facts About Jesse Haines

Jesse Haines spent nearly his entire major league career with the Cardinals.

Jesse Haines left baseball after that season and returned to his native Ohio.

However, his election was not without controversy, as the Veterans Committee included former teammates of Jesse Haines, resulting in charges of cronyism against the Veterans Committee.

Jesse Haines was born in Clayton, Ohio, but he grew up in nearby Phillipsburg, where he attended local schools.

Jesse Haines wanted to play baseball for the local team in Phillipsburg.

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Jesse Haines's parents did not approve of him playing baseball on Sundays, so Haines used to sneak away, hiding his uniform in a corn crib and changing clothes in a cornfield.

Jesse Haines left town to play semipro baseball in Dayton in 1912.

Jesse Haines had played briefly in the major leagues with the Cincinnati Reds in 1918, but he returned to the minor leagues.

Jesse Haines convinced a group of the team's stockholders to take out a $10,000 loan for the purchase of Haines's contract.

Jesse Haines became a fixture in the Cardinals starting rotation in 1920.

Jesse Haines pitched on three World Series championship teams, winning two games in the 1926 World Series.

In game seven of that series, Jesse Haines developed a bleeding blister and had to be removed from the game with the bases loaded in the seventh inning.

Unlike other knuckleball pitchers who gripped the pitch with their fingertips, Jesse Haines actually held the ball with his knuckles, throwing it as hard as he could.

Jesse Haines won 20 games or more three times for the Cardinals and won three World Series championships, though he did not pitch in the 1931 series.

Jesse Haines worked on the coaching staff of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1938.

Jesse Haines died in 1978 in Dayton, Ohio after a 28-year career as Montgomery County Assessor.