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Addie Joss
Born: April 12, 1880 in Woodland, Wisconsin
Died: 14, 1911 (aged 31) in Toledo, Ohio
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Height: 6’3″
Weight: 185 lbs.
Positions: Pitcher
Played For:
Cleveland Bronchos / Naps (1902–1910)
Biography:
Though time couldn’t tell the full effect Addie Joss might have had on the game of baseball, he left a legacy large enough to remember. For nine seasons Addie Joss was one of the best pitchers in the history of the American League, posting four 20-win seasons, capturing two ERA titles, and tossing two no-hitters (one of them a perfect game) and seven one-hitters. Of Joss’s 160 career victories 45 were shutouts, and his career 1.89 ERA ranks second all-time only to his long-time rival Ed Walsh among players with 1,000 innings pitched. An exceptional control pitcher with a deceptive pitching motion, the right-handed Joss employed a corkscrew delivery, turning his back entirely to the batter before coming at him with a sidearm motion that confused most hitters. “Joss not only had great speed and a fast-breaking curve,” Baseball Magazine observed in 1911, “but [also] a very effective pitching motion, bringing the ball behind him with a complete body swing and having it on the batter almost before the latter got sight of it.” After nearly pitching the Naps to their first pennant in 1908, illness and injury limited Addie’s endurance during his final two major league seasons, before his life was tragically cut short at the age of 31 by a bacterial infection.
More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addie_Joss
www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jossad01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/5e51b2e7
https://baseballhall.org/hof/joss-addie
