12 Facts About Tony Mullane

Tony Mullane is best known as a pitcher that could throw left-handed and right-handed, and for having one of the highest career win totals of pitchers not in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Tony Mullane suffered an injury to his right arm and managed to teach himself to throw left-handed.

Tony Mullane resumed throwing right-handed once the injury healed, and he even alternated throwing right-handed and left-handed in the same game, which was easy for him since he did not wear a glove.

Tony Mullane faced the batter with both hands on the ball, and then use either one to throw a pitch.

Tony Mullane had spent most of his career prohibited by the Boston Red Sox from pitching left-handed.

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Tony Mullane recorded 35 victories with the 1883 St Louis Browns.

In 1884, Tony Mullane attempted to sign with the St Louis Maroons of the Union Association, a new independent league, even though under the reserve clause the Browns still had rights to his services.

That season, Tony Mullane was teamed up with catcher Moses Fleetwood Walker, one of the first black men to play in Major League Baseball.

Tony Mullane set a dubious record on June 18,1894, by allowing 16 runs in the first inning of a game against the Boston Beaneaters.

Tony Mullane still holds the record for the most wild pitches in major league history, with 343.

Tony Mullane died at the age of 85 in Chicago, and is interred in grave 2, lot 48, block 5, section 58 at Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery located in Worth, Illinois.

Tony Mullane was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 2010.