Question: Facts: - debutteam: washington senators - birth date: 30 november 1898 - debutyear: 1923 - finalteam: washington senators - statlabel: win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts saves - statvalue: 148 -- 88 3.63 822 101 - caption: firpo marberry senators 1924 - death date: 30 june 1976 - name: firpo marberry - death place: mexia , texas - birth place: streetman , texas - position: pitcher - throws: right - debutdate: august 11 - finalyear: 1936 - bats: right - finaldate: june 10 - image: firpo marberry2.jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of firpo marberry .
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frederick '' firpo '' marberry -lrb- november 30 , 1898 -- june 30 , 1976 -rrb- was an american right-handed starting and relief pitcher in major league baseball from to , most notably with the washington senators .the sport 's first prominent reliever , he has been retroactively credited as having been the first pitcher to record 20 saves in a season , the first to make 50 relief appearances in a season or 300 in a career , and the only pitcher to lead the major leagues in saves six times .since relief pitching was still seen as a lesser calling in a time when starters were only removed when clearly ineffective , marberry also started 187 games in his career , posting a 94 -- 52 record as a starter for a .644 winning percentage .he pitched in later years for the detroit tigers -lrb- 1933 -- 1935 -rrb- and new york giants -lrb- 1936 -rrb- before ending his career in washington .