finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1934 left 21 february 1970 scranton , pennsylvania peckville , pennsylvania 1922 may 24 99 -- 109 4.15 512 pitcher cincinnati reds win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts july 6 1 august 1899 joe shaute
 cleveland indians joe shaute left
joe shaute

joseph benjamin shaute -lrb- august 1 , 1899 in peckville , pennsylvania -- february 21 , 1970 in scranton , pennsylvania -rrb- was a pitcher in major league baseball .
he pitched from 1922 to 1934 , and during his 13-year career , he played primarily for the cleveland indians .
he attended juniata college and mansfield university of pennsylvania .
he made his major league debut in september 1922 , and threw his first pitch to legendary swatter babe ruth .
baseball historian william c. kashatus noted that when shaute came to the pitching mound , `` the indians were clinging to a one-run lead in the bottom of the eighth with two outs and bases loaded with yankees '' .
shaute gained notoriety when he struck out ruth on four pitches to end the inning .
in the following inning , he faced another powerful hitter , bob meusel , who `` swung so hard on shaute 's first offering that he whirled completely around and fell to the ground '' .
the pitcher next struck out yankee catcher freddie hoffman .
kashatus observed that shaute `` continued to dominate ruth for the next three years '' .
the situation changed in 1927 , however , when ruth hit 60 home runs , setting a major league record that stood for more than seven decades .
ruth hit three of those home runs -- numbers 30 , 40 , and 52 -- off of shaute .
nevertheless , during his 13-season career , shaute struck out ruth on more than 30 occasions .
shaute enjoyed his best season in 1924 , `` when he won 20 games for the lowly indians who finished sixth that year '' .
