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b. June 10, 1905 · Boston Red Sox 1926–1932, New York Yankees 1932–1934, Cincinnati Reds 1935, Boston Braves 1935, 1943, Boston Bees 1936–1939, Pittsburgh Pirates 1940, Washington Senators 1941

He wore glasses on the mound in the 1920s and 1930s, which almost nobody did, and pitched for Red Sox clubs that lost 100 games three times while he was there. He went 132-159 with a 3.96 earned run average across 2,706 innings and 158 complete games.

His best season came for the other Boston club: 17-13 with a 2.87 earned run average for the 1936 Bees, at thirty-one. He also went 16-10 for the 1932 Yankees after they bought him in June, and pitched in that World Series.

He coached baseball at Bowdoin College for twenty years afterward. No Hall of Fame ballot ever listed him. He died in 1972, at sixty-seven.

Honors

Award	Times	Years
Baseball Magazine All-Star	1	1936

Batting, season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
1926	BOS	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.333
1927	BOS	37	46	3	13	1	1	1	6	5	14	1	.283
1928	BOS	35	63	5	9	2	1	0	4	7	32	0	.143
1929	BOS	32	74	6	13	2	0	0	2	2	21	0	.176
1930	BOS	36	92	11	13	4	1	0	8	7	32	0	.141
1931	BOS	35	81	4	10	2	0	0	1	3	28	0	.123
1932	BOS/NYY	29	74	7	8	4	0	0	5	2	29	0	.108
1933	NYY	25	34	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	15	0	.029
1934	NYY	22	39	2	4	1	1	0	4	0	14	0	.103
1935	BSN/CIN	35	62	2	9	3	0	0	3	0	19	0	.145
1936	BSN	37	83	7	8	1	0	0	0	6	33	0	.096
1937	BSN	32	83	7	13	0	0	0	6	4	30	0	.157
1938	BSN	29	77	2	9	1	0	0	1	1	19	0	.117
1939	BSN	33	67	6	12	1	0	0	6	2	19	0	.179
1940	PIT	35	28	2	5	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	.179
1941	WSH	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
1943	BSN	10	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250
Career	—	470	910	66	129	22	4	1	47	41	309	1	.142

Pitching, season by season

Year	Team	W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
1926	BOS	0	1	3	1	0	13.0	10	7	7	1	4.85
1927	BOS	5	8	34	16	2	160.1	176	76	59	42	4.27
1928	BOS	9	15	33	28	0	195.0	215	103	78	61	4.75
1929	BOS	10	18	32	26	0	221.0	225	89	81	61	3.62
1930	BOS	11	14	36	33	2	269.1	293	126	93	76	4.21
1931	BOS	16	12	35	32	0	230.2	263	103	79	74	4.02
1932	BOS/NYY	8	15	29	26	1	199.0	228	97	70	62	4.39
1933	NYY	3	2	25	6	0	90.1	120	59	37	28	5.88
1934	NYY	4	3	22	11	0	96.0	110	48	31	41	4.50
1935	BSN/CIN	6	15	35	24	0	187.2	239	105	47	59	5.04
1936	BSN	17	13	37	31	0	266.2	268	85	66	86	2.87
1937	BSN	14	14	32	32	0	246.0	250	80	60	70	2.93
1938	BSN	14	9	29	29	0	219.2	208	72	64	58	2.95
1939	BSN	8	14	33	28	2	191.2	221	83	59	46	3.90
1940	PIT	5	4	35	8	2	91.1	112	36	27	24	3.55
1941	WSH	0	1	5	0	0	7.0	12	8	5	3	10.29
1943	BSN	2	1	10	1	0	21.1	31	14	9	5	5.91
Career	—	132	159	465	332	9	2706.0	2981	1191	872	797	3.96

On this day & linked events

1905

Born June 10, 1905

North Truro, MA, USA

1972

Died August 26, 1972

1926

Major-league debut: Danny MacFayden

Danny MacFayden made a major-league debut on August 25, 1926.

1938

Johnny Vander Meer's No-Hitter

Johnny Vander Meer threw a no-hitter for the Cincinnati Reds against the Boston Bees on June 11, 1938, winning 3–0.

1943

Final major-league game: Danny MacFayden

Danny MacFayden played a final major-league game on September 13, 1943.

Image: Goudey, public domain