ED WALSH·1908

Forty wins against fifteen losses — a 1.42 E.R.A. over four hundred sixty-four innings. Forty-two complete games, eleven shutouts, two hundred sixty-nine punchouts. The American League’s loudest workload summer. The frames hang the forty on the wall and keep the spitball dripping.

40 WINS

In 1908 he won 40 games — forty-two complete games in the book.

1.42 E.R.A.

In 1908 his E.R.A. was 1.42 — frost on the coolest White Sox glass.

464 INNINGS

In 1908 he worked 464 innings — the American League’s loudest workload.

Ed Walsh, 1911. Photograph by Paul Thompson via Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (US).