41 Facts About Lon Warneke

Lon Warneke pitched in two other All-Star Games and was selected in 1939 and 1941.

Lon Warneke pitched a no-hitter for the Cardinals on August 30,1941; opened the 1934 season with back to back one-hitters ; and set a Major League Baseball fielding record for pitchers of 227 consecutive chances without an error, covering 163 games.

Lon Warneke is the only person who has both played and umpired in both an All-Star Game and a World Series.

Young Lonnie Warneke attended grade school in the one-room schoolhouse in Owley.

Lon Warneke soon grew to be among the tallest students in the tiny school.

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Lon Warneke helped his father on the farm and did chores for his mother.

Lon Warneke loves hunting dogs and good guns, the trails and loneliness of the wilderness in the rugged mountains surrounding his old home.

Lon Warneke played for the Mount Ida Athletics, a squad that played Montgomery County area teams.

Lon Warneke got a job delivering telegrams by bicycle for Western Union.

In Spring 1928, Lon Warneke approached the president of the Houston Buffaloes, a Texas League baseball team in the St Louis Cardinals organization, and asked for a tryout as a first baseman.

At camp, Buffaloes manager Frank "Pancho" Snyder took a look at Lon Warneke and told the nineteen-year-old that he had the arm of a pitcher.

Lon Warneke impressed no one at Laurel and the Cardinals released him.

Lon Warneke completed the year with another team in the Cotton States League, the Alexandria Reds, a team affiliated with Shreveport of the Texas League.

Lon Warneke's success attracted the Chicago Cubs, that year's National League pennant winner.

Whatever the figure, Lonnie "Country" Warneke reported to the Chicago Cubs spring training facilities on Santa Catalina Island, California in late-February 1930, a month before his twenty-first birthday.

Lon Warneke was at once involved in an on-field accident that sent him to the hospital.

Lon Warneke slumped to the ground but suffered no serious damage, although he did have to report to the hospital and receive a couple stitches.

Lon Warneke allowed 236 hits in 185 innings for Reading, which finished under.

Lon Warneke appeared in one major league game for the Cubs in 1930.

Lon Warneke's second major league game was a year to the date after his first.

Lon Warneke again showed signs of wildness, walking three of six batters faced, allowing a hit and two earned runs, and lasting two thirds of the inning before getting pulled.

Lon Warneke lost his next two starts, versus the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies, before recording his first major league win.

Lon Warneke started three more games in 1931, two of them complete games.

Lon Warneke came on in the seventh inning, faced six batters, allowed one hit and one walk, no runs.

Taylor corrected the error and Lon Warneke gained more control over his blazing fastball and hard-breaking curveball.

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Lon Warneke mused that he would win "about a half dozen games" during the regular season.

Lon Warneke suffered early game jitters, walking the first two batters he faced before striking out Babe Ruth.

Lon Warneke allowed two more runs in the third and another in the fifth.

Lon Warneke retired the side in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings, facing the minimum nine batters.

Lon Warneke struck out seven Yankees in the game and eight in the Series, the most by any Cubs' starter and twice as many as any other Cubs' pitcher.

On just two days rest, with the Cubs down three games to none, Lon Warneke was called upon to relieve in the first inning of Game 4; he departed in the fourth inning with the Cubs ahead.

Lon Warneke won 83 games for the Cardinals during his five and a half seasons in St Louis.

Lon Warneke was notified that he passed his military pre-induction physical on March 28,1944, his 35th birthday.

Many civilians worked in supporting positions during World War II, and Lon Warneke's role was consistent with President Roosevelt's 1942 statement that baseball was a morale booster.

Lon Warneke first umpired a major league game in 1940, under unusual circumstances.

Lon Warneke umpired through the 1955 season, working a total of 1055 games while making 44 ejections.

Lon Warneke was an umpire for the 1952 All-Star Game and for the 1954 World Series; he was umpiring along the left field line when Willie Mays made "The Catch" on September 29,1954.

Lon Warneke was a businessman in Hot Springs, Arkansas, before serving as County Judge of Garland County, Arkansas, from 1963 to 1972.

Lon Warneke was elected to the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame on January 19,1961, and still leads all Arkansas players in many Major League pitching categories including wins, games started, innings pitched, complete games, and shutouts.

Lon Warneke died on June 23,1976, at his home in Hot Springs; he is buried in Owley Cemetery in Montgomery County.

On July 21,2011, Lon Warneke was posthumously inducted into the Reading Baseball Hall of Fame.