finalyear death_date death_place bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1933 8 february 1965 pinole , california right oakland , california 1924 july 1 143 -- 85 3.76 516 pitcher pittsburgh pirates win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts april 18 23 march 1893 raykremerbaseballcard.jpg ray kremer
 pittsburgh pirates ray kremer right
ray kremer

remy peter `` ray '' kremer -lrb- march 23 , 1893 -- february 8 , 1965 -rrb- was a professional baseball player .
he was a pitcher over parts of ten seasons -lrb- 1924 -- 1933 -rrb- , all with the pittsburgh pirates .
kremer had a remarkable beginning to his big-league career .
he posted an 18-10 record as a rookie in 1924 , then followed that with seasons of 17-8 , 20-6 and 19-8 .
he was third in the vote for the national league 's most valuable player in 1926 .
the pirates won a pair of pennants during that stretch .
kremer threw two complete games in the 1925 world series against the washington senators , and after winning game 6 with a six-hitter , kremer was brought back for four innings of relief in game 7 and ended up the winning pitcher in that game as well .
he also made one start in the 1927 world series against a new york yankees team thought by many to be the greatest baseball team of all time .
he led the national league in era in both 1926 and 1927 .
kremer put up some of the most impressive numbers of his career in 1930 , leading the league in wins -lrb- 20 -rrb- , games started -lrb- 38 -rrb- and innings pitched -lrb- 276 -rrb- .
for his career , he compiled an 143 -- 85 record in 308 appearances , with a 3.76 era and 516 strikeouts .
kremer 's 143 wins with pittsburgh rank him eighth in franchise history , his .627 winning percentage ranks seventh , and his 1,954 innings pitched rank tenth .
he was born in oakland , california , and later died in pinole , california , at the age of 71 .
