finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1912 right 24 may 1939 farmington , missouri farmington , missouri 1903 august 10 92 -- 117 2.63 693 starting pitcher washington senators win-loss record earned run average strikeouts august 20 10 september 1880 barney pelty.jpg barney pelty
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barney pelty

barney pelty -lrb- september 10 , 1880 -- may 24 , 1939 -rrb- , was a major league baseball pitcher known as `` the yiddish curver '' because he was one of the first jewish baseball players in the american league .
his career era is 2.63 , 60th-best of all pitchers in major league baseball .
through 2006 he ranks 71st in hits per 9 innings , and 48th in batters plunked .
he was one of the best jewish pitchers in major league history , ranking first through 2010 in career era -lrb- ahead of # 2 sandy koufax -rrb- , 6th in wins -lrb- 92 -rrb- , and 7th in strikeouts -lrb- 693 -rrb- .
he was born and died in farmington , missouri .
