Rube Marquard

“Any hitter can hit a fast one,” Rube Marquard said. “But not many can hit slow ones.” It didn’t much matter what Marquard threw in his 18-year career, batters had trouble hitting it. He won 201 games and had 1,593 strikeouts, the third most by a left-hander when he retired in 1925. Marquard’s baseball career would never have even happened if his father had gotten his way. Fred Marquard was an engineer for the city of Cleveland and told his son if he played professional baseball he wouldn’t be allowed to return home.

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Tall and gangly, with a cannon for a left arm, Rube Marquard made headlines around the country in 1908 when the New York Giants purchased his contract from Indianapolis (American Association) for the unprecedented price of $11,000, by far the largest amount of money ever paid for a ballplayer. Initially the New York reporters called him the "$11,000 Beauty" or "$11,000 Peach," but two years later, when he was still in search of his 10th major-league victory, they derided him as the "$11,000 Lemon."

Major League Baseball Umpire. Between 1894 and 1890, he pitched in the American Association and the National League which later hired him in 1895. He worked the First World Series in 1903 and would work nine more in his tenure. He was the senior umpire behind home plate at the Polo Grounds in which Fred Merkle committed his boner which cost the New York Giants the League pennant to the Chicago Cubs in 1908. He would go on to umpire over 2,700 games in over a thirty year career ending in 1927. (bio by: Robert)

Career: 201-177, 3.08 ERA, 1593 SO, P, HOF in 1971, Giants/Robins/... 1908-1925, t:L, 1x W Leader, born in OH 1886, died 1980

Richard William "Rube" Marquard (October 9, 1886 – June 1, 1980) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball in the 1910s and early 1920s. He achieved his greatest success with the New York Giants. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.