Red Faber
- World Series Champion ( 1917)
Urban Clarence " Red" Faber ( born September 6, 1888 in Cascade, Iowa, † September 25, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American baseball player in Major League Baseball.
Biography
Red Faber began his career as a right-handed pitcher in Minor League Baseball. In 1910, he even threw a Perfect Game had, but after struggling to keep up with inflammation in his arm. Thus, he decided to use the spitball, which was later banned. Faber was the last player who was allowed to use this litter legal.
His debut in the American League was Faber on April 16, 1914 for the Chicago White Sox, the team he should remain faithful in his twenty year career. Outstanding were his performances in the World Series of 1917. In the series against the New York Giants, he won three games and helped his team for the first title. Most of the time the season of 1918 he spent in the Navy during World War II. In 1919, he again had to contend with arm problems and only came to an ERA of 3.83, the worst in his first nine years in the MLB. In the series of the Black Sox scandal because he had arm problems and a flu on the substitutes ' bench and was thus not involved in the events surrounding the series.
With the departures of players after these events, the White Sox were able to place only in the lower half of the table after 1920 usually. From 1920-1922 he reached each have 20 wins and led the American League in 1921 and 1922 in the category of ERA. From 1920-1931 he allowed only 91 home runs, which corresponds to an average of only one home run in the month. His last big game he graduated on May 29, 1929, a one -hitter against the Detroit Tigers. As of the 1931 season, he was mainly used as Einwechselwerfer. His last game he played on September 20, 1933 at the age of 45 years. A total of 254 victories and 213 defeats and an ERA were 3.15 in its statistics. After his playing career, he worked intermittently over again as a coach with the White Sox.
1964 Red Faber was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1976, he died at the age of 88 years in Chicago.