Vic Willis

Victor G. "Vic" Willis spent only 13 seasons in major league baseball, but he managed to notch 249 wins along the way. He also had 50 shutouts and a 2.63 lifetime ERA. Of the 471 games he started, he completed 388 of them. His first season in the game was with the Boston Beaneaters in 1898. He won 25 games that year, and played an important role in helping his team win the pennant.

Vic Willis, known as The Delaware Peach, won a World Series with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Learn about the Hall of Fame pitcher and see his statistics.

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As a rookie in 1898, Vic Willis won 25 games as a key member of the pennant winning Boston Beaneaters, one of the top teams of the nineteenth century. Eleven years later in his penultimate season, Willis again won over twenty games as a member of the world champion Pittsburgh Pirates, one of the top teams of the deadball era. In between he pitched well enough to finish with 249 wins in only a thirteen-year career. A big man for his time at 6' 2", 205 pounds, Willis pitched with an overhand delivery and was known as a great strikeout pitcher. In 1995, nearly a century after his major league debut, the Veterans Committee voted the hurler nicknamed the "Delaware Peach" into the Hall of Fame.

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Victor Gazaway Willis (April 12, 1876 – August 3, 1947) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher during the 1890s and 1900s. In 14 seasons in the National League (NL), he pitched for the Boston Beaneaters, Pittsburg Pirates, and St. Louis Cardinals. In 513 career games, Willis pitched 3,996 innings and posted a win–loss record of 249–205, with 388 complete games, 50 shutouts, and a 2.63 earned run average (ERA). Nicknamed the "Delaware Peach", he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995.

Career: 249-205 (48th), 2.63 ERA (62nd), 1651 SO, P, HOF in 1995, Beaneaters/Pirates/... 1898-1910, t:R, 1x SO Leader, born in Unite. 1876, died 1947