American baseball player (1900-1968)
Baseball player
Emil Yde Pitcher Born: (1900-01-28 ) January 28, 1900Great Lakes, Illinois , U.S.Died: December 4, 1968(1968-12-04) (aged 68)Leesburg, Florida , U.S.April 21, 1924, for the Pittsburgh Pirates October 3, 1929, for the Detroit Tigers Win–loss record 49–25 Earned run average 4.02 Strikeouts 160
Emil Ogden Yde (January 28, 1900 – December 4, 1968) was an American left-handed professional baseball pitcher . He played all or part of four seasons in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1924–27) and Detroit Tigers in 1929. As a rookie in 1924, Yde led the National League in shutouts with four and in winning percentage (.842) with a Win–loss record of 16–3.
In 1925 , Yde became the first pitcher ever to allow back-to-back home runs in a World Series when Goose Goslin and Joe Harris hit consecutive homers in the third inning of the fourth game of the series.[1]
He also was a good hitting pitcher in his brief major league career, posting a .233 batting average (74-for-317) with 46 runs , 1 home run and 28 RBI .
Yde was of Danish descent.[2] His father worked at Naval Station Great Lakes and later as a superintendent at a coal yard. Yde attended both the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign .[3] He served in the United States Navy during World War I .[4]
He moved to Leesburg, Florida during his playing career and eventually became a real estate dealer there.[4] In 1944, he ran for sheriff of Lake County, Florida but lost in the Democratic Party primary to Willis V. McCall .[5]
References
^ Snyder, John (2004). The World Series' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Championship Teams, Broken Dreams, and October Oddities . Potomac Books, Inc. ISBN 978-1-61234-052-4 . Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
^ Forr, James; Proctor, David (2009). Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography . McFarland. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-7864-4385-7 . Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
^ Louisa, Angelo J. (2015). The Pirates Unraveled: Pittsburgh's 1926 Season . McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2254-5 . Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
^ a b Lee, Bill (2015). The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others . McFarland. p. 438. ISBN 978-1-4766-0930-0 . Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
^ Corsair, Gary (2004). The Groveland Four . p. 12. ISBN 1414072449 . Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
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