Dazzy Vance Marquee Hall of Fame 1955

b. March 4, 1891 · New York Yankees 1915, 1918, Pittsburgh Pirates 1915, Brooklyn Robins 1922–1931, Brooklyn Dodgers 1932, 1935, St. Louis Cardinals 1933–1934, Cincinnati Reds 1934

His first trial came in 1915, for the Pirates and the Yankees, and he went 0-4. He got two more games in 1918, then vanished from the major league record for three years. A bad arm was the reason, and accounts of what eventually fixed it differ. He pitched in the minors throughout.

Brooklyn took him in 1922. He was 31 and went 18-12, the first of seven consecutive seasons leading the league in strikeouts. In 1924 he went 28-6 with a 2.16 ERA, 262 strikeouts, and 30 complete games, took the pitching triple crown, and was named the National League's Most Valuable Player.

He pitched until he was 44 and finished with 197 wins and 2,045 strikeouts. Fourteen of his sixteen seasons came after he turned 31, and the whole Hall of Fame case for him rests on those. The vote came in 1955, twenty years after he last pitched.

Honors

Award	Times	Years
Baseball Magazine All-Star	5	1923, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1930
Most Valuable Player	1	1924
Triple Crown (pitching)	1	1924
The Sporting News All-Star	1	1925

Batting, season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
1915	NYY/PIT	9	4	0	2	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	.500
1918	NYY	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
1922	BRO	36	89	9	20	3	0	0	6	3	25	1	.225
1923	BRO	37	83	5	7	0	1	1	1	14	28	0	.084
1924	BRO	35	106	7	16	0	0	2	11	10	29	0	.151
1925	BRO	31	98	8	14	3	0	3	11	8	33	0	.143
1926	BRO	24	55	2	10	0	0	0	7	4	14	0	.182
1927	BRO	34	90	10	15	3	0	0	9	6	26	0	.167
1928	BRO	38	96	7	17	6	0	0	9	9	34	0	.177
1929	BRO	31	74	4	10	3	0	0	1	5	21	0	.135
1930	BRO	35	89	4	12	2	0	0	7	8	26	0	.135
1931	BRO	30	67	6	9	0	0	0	3	5	20	0	.134
1932	BRO	27	56	2	5	0	0	0	3	4	12	0	.089
1933	STL	28	28	1	5	1	0	0	3	0	8	0	.179
1934	CIN/STL	25	19	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	8	0	.158
1935	BRO	20	17	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	.059
Career	—	442	971	68	146	23	1	7	75	79	287	1	.150

Pitching, season by season

Year	Team	W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
1915	NYY/PIT	0	4	9	4	0	30.2	26	14	21	18	4.11
1918	NYY	0	0	2	0	0	2.1	9	4	2	0	15.43
1922	BRO	18	12	36	30	0	245.2	259	101	94	134	3.70
1923	BRO	18	15	37	35	0	280.1	263	109	100	197	3.50
1924	BRO	28	6	35	34	0	308.1	238	74	77	262	2.16
1925	BRO	22	9	31	31	0	265.1	247	104	66	221	3.53
1926	BRO	9	10	24	22	1	169.0	172	73	58	140	3.89
1927	BRO	16	15	34	32	1	273.1	242	82	69	184	2.70
1928	BRO	22	10	38	32	2	280.1	226	65	72	200	2.09
1929	BRO	14	13	31	26	0	231.1	244	100	47	126	3.89
1930	BRO	17	15	35	31	0	258.2	241	75	55	173	2.61
1931	BRO	11	13	30	29	0	218.2	221	82	53	150	3.38
1932	BRO	12	11	27	24	1	175.2	171	82	57	103	4.20
1933	STL	6	2	28	11	3	99.0	105	39	28	67	3.55
1934	CIN/STL	1	3	25	6	1	77.0	90	39	25	42	4.56
1935	BRO	3	2	20	0	2	51.0	55	25	16	28	4.41
Career	—	197	140	442	347	11	2966.2	2809	1068	840	2045	3.24

On this day & linked events

1891

Born March 4, 1891

Orient, IA, USA

1961

Died February 16, 1961

1915

Major-league debut: Dazzy Vance

Dazzy Vance made a major-league debut on April 16, 1915.

1925

Dazzy Vance's No-Hitter

Dazzy Vance threw a no-hitter for the Brooklyn Robins against the Philadelphia Phillies on September 13, 1925, winning 10–1.

1935

Final major-league game: Dazzy Vance

Dazzy Vance played a final major-league game on August 14, 1935.

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