finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1918 right 4 april 1937 everett , pennsylvania everett , pennsylvania 1918 april 18 1 2.0 7 pitcher st. louis cardinals games pitched innings pitched batters faced april 18 25 june 1896 earl howard -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 st. louis cardinals earl howard right
earl howard -lrb- baseball -rrb-

earl nycum howard -lrb- june 25 , 1896 -- april 4 , 1937 -rrb- was a major league baseball pitcher .
howard played in one game for the st. louis cardinals on april 18 , 1918 .
he began his professional career with the gettysburg patriots of the blue ridge league in 1915 .
undoubtedly his best season in the minor leagues came during the 1917 season with the hagerstown terriers , also of the blue ridge league .
he pitched 266 innings while accumulating a record of 25 wins and 10 losses .
he accumulated 166 strikeouts , 8 shutouts , and an earned run average of 1.39 , all season highs for the 1917 blue ridge league .
his 25 wins tied the all-time seasonal mark for the blue ridge league .
his pitching was a key component to hagerstown 's capture of the league title that year .
after his one game appearance in the majors , the collapse of the blue ridge league in 1918 force howard to move to milwaukee to play baseball .
he played in milwaukee for parts of four seasons .
his spent the last two seasons of his professional career with the newark bears of the international league in 1927 and 1928 .
