Tim Keefe

Though Timothy Keefe spent the majority of his baseball career pitching from a distance of 50 feet, he also threw in an era when pitchers worked every other day, and his talent was so great that it might have withstood the test of time. The submarine pitcher spent his first big league season throwing from 45 feet, and his last from 60 feet, six inches, notching 342 victories along the way.

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One of the greatest pitchers in 19th-century major-league baseball, Tim Keefe won 342 games and still ranks among the top ten pitchers in lifetime victories. He was known for his change-of-pace pitch, which he used to establish a still-standing major-league record of 19 consecutive victories in 1888. “No more graceful, skillful and strategic pitcher ever tossed a ball over the plate to the bewilderment and dismay of opposing batsmen,” one writer wrote of Keefe in 1890.1 In addition to his pitching prowess, Keefe was also a leader in the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players, which led a revolt of National League ballplayers to form the ill-fated Players League in 1890.

Career: 342-225 (10th), 2.63 ERA (61st), 2564 SO (28th), P, HOF in 1964, Giants/Metropolitans/... 1880-1893, t:R, 6x H9 Leader, born in MA 1857, died 1933

Timothy John "Tim" Keefe (January 1, 1857 – April 23, 1933), nicknamed "Smiling Tim" and "Sir Timothy", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He stood 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg). He was one of the most dominating pitchers of the 19th century and posted impressive statistics in one category or another for almost every season he pitched. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964.