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1926 4 october 1955 philadelphia , pennsylvania left houston , texas 1914 may 30 3.70 26 -- 21 129 pitcher philadelphia athletics earned run average win -- loss record strikeouts june 26 14 december 1894 stan baumgartner.jpeg stan baumgartner
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stan baumgartner

stanwood fulton `` stan '' baumgartner -lrb- december 14 , 1894 -- october 4 , 1955 -rrb- was a major league baseball pitcher .
born in houston and raised in chicago , he played with the philadelphia phillies from 1914 to 1916 , and from 1921 to 1922 .
he also played for the philadelphia athletics from 1924 to 1926 .
he played college baseball at the university of chicago from 1912 to 1914 , and also played american football and basketball for the chicago maroons .
during the 1913 -- 14 season , all three teams went on to win the big ten conference title , and he was chosen for the all-conference teams in all three sports .
baumgartner made his major league debut on june 26 , 1914 for the phillies .
he played in 15 games his rookie year , posting a 2 -- 2 record and an earned run average of 3.28 , along with two complete games and a shutout .
the 1915 philadelphia phillies season saw baumgartner as the main game finisher , pitching in 16 games and finishing a team-leading 12 .
he did not pitch in the 1915 world series .
baumgartner only pitched in one game during the 1916 season , and did not pitch for the phillies again until 1921 .
during the 1921 season , he pitched in 22 games , earning three wins against six losses .
he pitched six games in 1922 , he final season as a member of the phillies .
in 1924 , he joined the philadelphia athletics , and ended up having the best season of his career .
during the 1924 philadelphia athletics season , he pitched in 36 games and started 16 .
he pitched 12 complete games , and posted an era of 2.88 , which was fourth best in the american league .
the following season , he pitched a career-high 17 games and earned an era of 3.57 .
after one more season with the phillies as both a starting pitcher and relief pitcher , baumgartner retired .
after retirement , baumgartner became a sportswriter , writing for the sporting news and the philadelphia inquirer .
he died in philadelphia on october 4 , 1955 .
