Ed Walsh
date: label: date made
content: before 1960
name: label: Associated Name
content: Chicago White Sox
notes: label: Description
content: Pitcher Edward Augustine Walsh (1881-1959) played Major League baseball from 1904-1917. The right hander spent all his career with the Chicago White Sox, excepting for his final season, when he took the mound for the Boston Braves.
label: Description
content: Walsh's 1.82 lifetime earned run average remains the lowest in Major League Baseball History (minimum1,000 innings.) <i> Big Ed </i> won 195 games against 126 losses in a career shortened by injury, throwing 1,736 strikeouts.
label: Description
content: In 1924, Walsh managed the White Sox for a single season. Roundly accepted as on the most dominant pitchers of his era, Walsh was elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: level of sport
content: Major League
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.310547.034.01
label: catalog number
content: 310547.034.01
label: accession number
content: 310547
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Card, Baseball
label: Object Name
content: autograph, baseball
label: Object Name
content: autograph
label: Other Terms
content: Card, Baseball; Autograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 6 in; 10.16 cm x 15.24 cm