RUBE WADDELL·1908

Peak SkillScore summer in a Browns cloth — nineteen wins, a 1.89 ERA, and two hundred thirty-two punchouts. Twenty-five complete games, five shutouts, three saves when the book asked. The left arm did not soft-pedal for St. Louis; it just kept missing bats. The cartoons chase the smoke and the cool glass.

1.89 E.R.A.

In 1908 his E.R.A. was 1.89 — cool glass on a peak SkillScore Browns summer.

232 STRIKEOUTS

In 1908 he struck out 232 batters — the smoke still forms a K.

19 WINS

In 1908 he won 19 games — twenty-five complete games in the book.

Rube Waddell, 1905. Photograph by Charles M. Conlon via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (US).