ED WALSH·1911

Twenty-seven wins against eighteen losses — two hundred fifty-five punchouts and a 2.22 E.R.A. that still scored. Thirty-three complete games. Big Ed on a Chicago summer that kept the suitcase South Side. The frames tip the white sock and keep the wet ball in frame.

27 WINS

In 1911 he won 27 games — White Sox summer, locked down.

255 STRIKEOUTS

In 1911 he struck out 255 batters — the wet ball still found the zone.

BIG ED

They called him Big Ed — spitball king of the South Side.

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