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b. October 23, 1894 · Philadelphia Athletics 1914–1916, Cincinnati Reds 1917–1927, Brooklyn Robins 1928–1931, Philadelphia Phillies 1932, St. Louis Cardinals 1932

Connie Mack put him in the 1914 Athletics rotation at nineteen and he went 10-4 with a 1.77 earned run average for a club that won the pennant. The next year he went 4-17 and something in the arm was gone. He won eleven more games in the six years after that.

Cincinnati made him an outfielder. He hit .347 in 1924, .348 in 1925 and .318 in 1929, and finished with a .301 average across nineteen seasons — 1,170 hits, 164 doubles, 87 triples and 449 walks, with 840 games in the outfield and 107 on the mound.

He was one of the very few men to have a real career at both, and he played on the Cincinnati club that won the 1919 World Series from the White Sox. He was still a useful hitter at thirty-seven. No Hall of Fame ballot ever listed him. He died in 1966, at seventy-two.

Batting, season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
1914	PHA	29	51	6	11	1	1	0	4	6	7	0	.216
1915	PHA	33	55	9	8	0	1	1	4	9	13	0	.145
1916	PHA	4	5	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	.200
1917	CIN	3	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.200
1918	CIN	23	62	10	17	5	0	0	6	5	4	0	.274
1919	CIN	61	165	22	34	3	4	2	17	23	15	2	.206
1920	CIN	21	30	4	8	1	0	0	3	1	4	1	.267
1921	CIN	109	323	41	99	18	6	1	54	39	20	5	.307
1922	CIN	52	53	7	14	0	2	0	8	4	4	1	.264
1923	CIN	54	119	25	33	3	1	0	18	20	4	3	.277
1924	CIN	115	383	41	133	14	13	4	49	22	20	9	.347
1925	CIN	97	319	43	111	17	6	4	61	40	16	9	.348
1926	CIN	86	297	58	106	15	9	1	51	37	20	3	.357
1927	CIN	124	467	43	136	14	8	3	77	32	22	4	.291
1928	BRO	145	501	78	148	29	13	4	70	80	33	2	.295
1929	BRO	136	456	72	145	22	8	9	77	67	27	4	.318
1930	BRO	109	335	53	100	12	8	3	52	51	19	4	.299
1931	BRO	67	153	22	43	4	5	0	26	11	10	0	.281
1932	PHI/STL	37	102	9	22	6	1	0	8	2	6	0	.216
Career	—	1305	3881	544	1170	164	87	32	586	449	246	47	.301

Pitching, season by season

Year	Team	W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
1914	PHA	10	4	29	10	2	147.2	112	29	56	96	1.77
1915	PHA	4	17	32	20	0	178.1	183	103	118	69	5.20
1916	PHA	0	2	4	2	0	15.0	16	11	14	8	6.60
1917	CIN	0	0	2	1	0	9.0	15	6	5	2	6.00
1918	CIN	8	5	17	13	0	128.0	124	35	39	37	2.46
1919	CIN	2	4	13	4	0	41.2	37	16	8	13	3.46
1920	CIN	2	0	10	2	0	20.1	24	4	2	4	1.77
Career	—	26	32	107	52	2	540.0	511	204	242	229	3.40

On this day & linked events

1894

Born October 23, 1894

Coder, PA, USA

1966

Died November 7, 1966

1914

Major-league debut: Rube Bressler

Rube Bressler made a major-league debut on April 24, 1914.

1932

Final major-league game: Rube Bressler

Rube Bressler played a final major-league game on July 18, 1932.

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