LEFTHANDED BASEBALL

The Best Lefthanded Batters and Lefthanded Pitchers in Baseball

All-Time Greatest Lefthanded Pitchers

Rube Waddell

Two of Rube Waddell's greatest contemporaries were

Eddie Plank and Rube Marquard.

Other Great Lefthanded Pitchers during the same era (prior to 1930) were

Eppa Rixey, Babe Ruth, Herb Pennock, Hooks Wiltse,

Hippo Vaughn, Jesse Tannehill, and Wilbur Cooper.

Rube Waddell pitched 13 years (from 1987 to 1910), 6 years with the Philadelphia Athletics and 7 more with 4 different teams. During those 6 years with Philadelphia he won 131 games, including 27 wins with only 10 losses and a 1.48 Earned Run Average in 1905.

For his career he won 193 games and had a 2.16 earned run average (11th all time). He had 261 complete games and 50 shutouts (19th all-time) in 340 starts. He led the American League in strikeouts 6 consecutive years (1902 to 1907) and finished with 2316 strikeouts (53rd all-time). He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946.

Other Great Lefthanded Pitchers

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