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b. September 22, 1889 · Detroit Tigers 1912–1926

Fifteen seasons, all of them in Detroit, gave him 222 wins against 182 with a 3.30 earned run average across 3,390 innings and 245 complete games. Nobody has won more games for the franchise — George Mullin has 209 and Mickey Lolich 207 — and the record has stood since 1926.

He won 24 games in 1915 and 21 in both 1919 and 1923. The club finished second in 1915 and second again in 1923 and never first in any of his years, so he pitched fifteen seasons for one of the better organizations in the league and never appeared in a postseason game.

The nickname came from the curveball. A heart condition ended him at thirty-six and he lived another thirty-seven years in Michigan. He has never appeared on a Hall of Fame ballot of any kind, which for the winningest pitcher a charter franchise has had is its own sort of record.

Batting, season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
1912	DET	2	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	.250
1913	DET	33	79	15	14	3	2	0	7	9	14	0	.177
1914	DET	46	97	8	21	4	0	1	7	11	24	0	.216
1915	DET	46	103	9	15	2	2	0	6	16	26	2	.146
1916	DET	39	72	8	16	3	2	1	5	15	30	0	.222
1917	DET	38	87	7	11	3	0	0	2	13	24	0	.126
1918	DET	33	77	3	14	2	2	0	11	11	13	0	.182
1919	DET	34	97	7	14	2	1	0	14	5	24	1	.144
1920	DET	38	83	7	14	2	2	0	5	14	27	0	.169
1921	DET	32	88	8	23	2	1	1	11	4	15	0	.261
1922	DET	39	72	4	15	3	0	1	7	8	20	0	.208
1923	DET	50	104	10	24	5	0	0	13	17	27	0	.231
1924	DET	40	38	5	5	1	0	0	2	4	15	0	.132
1925	DET	35	81	10	15	3	1	1	12	10	18	0	.185
1926	DET	35	42	6	10	5	1	1	5	3	11	0	.238
Career	—	540	1124	107	212	41	14	6	107	141	289	3	.189

Pitching, season by season

Year	Team	W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
1912	DET	1	1	2	2	0	17.0	11	6	9	7	3.18
1913	DET	13	12	33	29	1	225.0	188	62	82	107	2.48
1914	DET	18	15	45	35	4	302.0	286	96	87	150	2.86
1915	DET	24	13	46	35	2	309.2	261	86	115	132	2.50
1916	DET	19	12	39	29	4	238.2	220	85	90	95	3.21
1917	DET	17	14	37	31	2	270.2	243	73	87	102	2.43
1918	DET	12	16	33	26	3	249.2	243	83	58	73	2.99
1919	DET	21	9	34	32	0	256.1	262	101	63	73	3.55
1920	DET	13	21	38	32	0	270.1	308	107	84	82	3.56
1921	DET	10	15	32	28	1	233.0	275	112	81	68	4.33
1922	DET	13	13	39	25	4	218.2	251	102	59	78	4.20
1923	DET	21	13	50	39	3	316.0	331	127	78	105	3.62
1924	DET	12	11	40	10	6	131.1	155	67	40	44	4.59
1925	DET	16	11	35	30	1	228.0	238	80	85	58	3.16
1926	DET	12	6	35	5	9	124.1	135	58	49	27	4.20
Career	—	222	182	538	388	40	3390.2	3407	1245	1067	1201	3.30

On this day & linked events

1889

Born September 22, 1889

Indianapolis, IN, USA

1963

Died July 27, 1963

1912

Major-league debut: Hooks Dauss

Hooks Dauss made a major-league debut on September 28, 1912.

1918

Dutch Leonard's No-Hitter

Dutch Leonard threw a no-hitter for the Boston Red Sox against the Detroit Tigers on June 3, 1918, winning 5–0.

1926

Final major-league game: Hooks Dauss

Hooks Dauss played a final major-league game on September 19, 1926.

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