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1917 right 1 march 1976 bokoshe , oklahoma lehigh , oklahoma 1913 september 29 58-33 2.36 294 pitcher boston red sox win-loss earned run average strikeouts april 10 5 january 1888 george rube foster.jpg rube foster -lrb- al pitcher -rrb-
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rube foster -lrb- al pitcher -rrb-

george `` rube '' foster -lrb- january 5 , 1888 in lehigh , oklahoma -- march 1 , 1976 in bokoshe , oklahoma -rrb- was a major league baseball player .
foster was a right-handed pitcher with the boston red sox from to and won two world series championships with the team in and again in .
foster was picked up by the boston red sox and made his major league debut for the team on april 10 , .
foster acted as a starting pitcher and a relief pitcher for the team during the 19 games he pitched in during the season .
foster posted a 3 -- 3 record with a 3.16 era and 36 strikeouts in 68.3 innings pitched .
foster 's sophomore season in the big leagues was one of his best , in which he pitched in 32 games , while starting in 27 of them .
he finished with a 14 -- 8 record , and finished second in the american league with an impressive 1.70 era .
foster was only behind his boston red sox teammate , dutch leonard , who posted a 0.96 era , which is now considered the modern day all-time single-season record .
in , foster posted a 20 -- 8 record , and another impressive 2.11 era .
foster most effectively showed his importance to the team in the 1915 world series where he picked up 2 complete game wins and only gave up 4 earned runs and struck out 13 batters in 18.0 innings .
with the bat , foster went 4-for-8 , with a double and an rbi .
foster had another good campaign in acting as a starting pitcher and relief pitcher .
he went 14 -- 7 in the season , and posted a decent 3.06 era .
on june 21 of that year , he no-hit the new york yankees 2-0 at fenway park .
in the 1916 world series , foster came in relief in game 3 , and pitched three scoreless innings .
the red sox ended up winning the series 4 games to 1 , and became the first back-to-back winners of the world series since the philadelphia athletics had done it 5 years earlier .
foster went back to a mainly starting role in , posting an 8 -- 7 record with a 2.53 era .
before the start of the season , foster was traded to the cincinnati reds for dave shean .
rube foster refused to report to his new team and so the red sox sent cash to the reds to complete the trade .
rube foster 's baseball career ended , and he finished his major league career with 58 -- 33 career pitching record , a 2.36 earned run average and 294 strikeouts in 842.3 innings pitched .
