Buster Ross

{{short description|American baseball player (1903–1982)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Buster Ross

|position=Pitcher

|image=Buster Ross.jpg

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date|1903|3|11|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Kuttawa, Kentucky

|death_date={{death date and age|1982|4|24|1903|3|11}}

|death_place=Mayfield, Kentucky

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=June 15

|debutyear=1924

|debutteam=Boston Red Sox

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 13

|finalyear=1926

|finalteam=Boston Red Sox

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=7–12

|stat2label=Strikeouts

|stat2value=31

|stat3label=Earned run average

|stat3value=5.01

|teams=

• Boston Red Sox (1924–26)

}}

Chester Franklin "Buster" Ross (March 11, 1903 – April 24, 1982) was a major league baseball player for the Boston Red Sox from 1924 to 1926. He was born on March 11, 1903, in Kuttawa, Kentucky, and died on April 24, 1982, in Mayfield, Kentucky.

Ross holds the modern major league record for most errors by a pitcher in one game with four. He committed four errors on May 17, 1925, against the St. Louis Browns.{{cite web|title=Pitcher Error Records|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rb_pier.shtml|website=Baseball Almanac}}

Ross also gave up Babe Ruth's 300th career home run; this was on September 8, 1925, at Fenway Park.{{cite web|title=Babe Ruth's 300th Home Run|url=http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/578717|website=Rare & Early Newspapers}}