finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1930 right 17 march 1959 philadelphia , pennsylvania silver creek , new york 1915 may 22 166 -- 166 3.75 1,030 pitcher philadelphia athletics win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts april 12 24 april 1894 howardehmke.jpg howard ehmke
 buffalo blues howard ehmke right
howard ehmke

howard jonathan ehmke -lrb- april 24 , 1894 -- march 17 , 1959 -rrb- was a major league baseball pitcher .
he is best known for being the surprise starter who won game 1 of the 1929 world series for the philadelphia athletics at the age of 35 .
after retirement from baseball , he started his own company that began making the first tarpaulins to cover baseball diamonds during rain .
