Rube Marquard Marquee Hall of Fame 1971

b. October 9, 1886 · New York Giants 1908–1915, Brooklyn Robins 1915–1920, Cincinnati Reds 1921, Boston Braves 1922–1925

He won 201 games against 177 losses over eighteen seasons, with a 3.08 earned run average, 197 complete games, 30 shutouts and 1,593 strikeouts. He led the National League in strikeouts in 1911, with 237, and in wins in 1912, with 26. His three best years, 1911 through 1913, produced records of 24-7, 26-11 and 23-10 for the Giants.

He won nine games in his first three seasons, and the newspapers turned the sum New York had paid for him into a running insult. The fourth year he went 24-7. On April 15, 1915, by then a Brooklyn pitcher, he threw a no-hitter. He worked the vaudeville stage between seasons.

He pitched for five pennant winners: the Giants in 1911, 1912 and 1913, and Brooklyn in 1916 and 1920. All five lost the World Series. The writers voted on him from 1936 to 1955 and never got him past 35 votes of 251. The Veterans Committee elected him in 1971, when he was eighty-four, and he lived another nine years.

Honors

Award	Times	Years
Baseball Magazine All-Star	1	1911

Batting, season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
1908	NYG	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
1909	NYG	29	54	3	8	1	0	0	2	1	17	0	.148
1910	NYG	13	27	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	8	0	.111
1911	NYG	45	104	9	17	1	2	1	10	2	23	0	.163
1912	NYG	43	96	14	21	2	0	0	8	7	17	2	.219
1913	NYG	42	105	5	23	1	0	0	6	4	14	1	.219
1914	NYG	39	84	3	15	0	0	0	0	2	15	0	.179
1915	BRO/NYG	33	63	3	7	0	0	0	3	1	10	0	.111
1916	BRO	36	63	3	9	0	1	0	5	4	17	1	.143
1917	BRO	37	75	6	15	2	0	0	4	3	13	1	.200
1918	BRO	34	76	0	13	2	0	0	3	2	14	0	.171
1919	BRO	8	23	1	6	2	0	0	3	0	3	0	.261
1920	BRO	28	59	2	10	1	0	0	0	5	12	1	.169
1921	CIN	39	95	3	19	3	0	0	10	0	16	0	.200
1922	BSN	39	63	3	14	0	0	0	4	0	9	0	.222
1923	BSN	38	86	4	12	0	0	0	3	0	17	0	.140
1924	BSN	6	11	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	.273
1925	BSN	26	22	3	3	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	.136
Career	—	536	1107	63	198	17	3	1	64	33	208	6	.179

Pitching, season by season

Year	Team	W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
1908	NYG	0	1	1	1	0	5.0	6	2	2	2	3.60
1909	NYG	5	13	29	22	1	173.0	155	50	73	109	2.60
1910	NYG	4	4	13	8	0	70.2	65	35	40	52	4.46
1911	NYG	24	7	45	33	3	277.2	221	77	106	237	2.50
1912	NYG	26	11	43	38	1	294.2	286	84	80	175	2.57
1913	NYG	23	10	42	33	3	288.0	248	80	49	151	2.50
1914	NYG	12	22	39	33	2	268.0	261	91	47	92	3.06
1915	BRO/NYG	11	10	33	23	3	193.2	207	87	38	92	4.04
1916	BRO	13	6	36	20	5	205.0	169	36	38	107	1.58
1917	BRO	19	12	37	29	0	232.2	200	66	60	117	2.55
1918	BRO	9	18	34	29	0	239.0	231	70	59	89	2.64
1919	BRO	3	3	8	7	0	59.0	54	15	10	29	2.29
1920	BRO	10	7	28	26	0	189.2	181	68	35	89	3.23
1921	CIN	17	14	39	35	0	265.2	291	100	50	88	3.39
1922	BSN	11	15	39	24	1	198.0	255	112	66	57	5.09
1923	BSN	11	14	38	29	0	239.0	265	99	65	78	3.73
1924	BSN	1	2	6	6	0	36.0	33	12	13	10	3.00
1925	BSN	2	8	26	8	0	72.0	105	46	27	19	5.75
Career	—	201	177	536	404	19	3306.2	3233	1130	858	1593	3.08

On this day & linked events

1886

Born October 9, 1886

Cleveland, OH, USA

1980

Died June 2, 1980

1908

Major-league debut: Rube Marquard

Rube Marquard made a major-league debut on September 25, 1908.

1915

Rube Marquard's No-Hitter

Rube Marquard threw a no-hitter for the New York Giants against the Brooklyn Robins on April 15, 1915, winning 2–0.

1925

Final major-league game: Rube Marquard

Rube Marquard played a final major-league game on September 18, 1925.

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