Ed Cushman

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Ed Cushman

|image=EdCushman.jpg

|birth_date={{Birth date|1852|3|27}}

|birth_place=Eagleville, Ohio, U.S.{{cite book|last=Whitman|first=Benjamin|title=Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania|url=https://archive.org/details/nelsonsbiog00whit|year=1896|publisher=S.B. Nelson|page=[https://archive.org/details/nelsonsbiog00whit/page/750 750]}}

|death_date={{death date and age|1915|9|26|1852|3|27}}

|death_place=Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|bats=Right

|throws=Left

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=July 6

|debutyear={{Baseball year|1883}}

|debutteam=Buffalo Bisons

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=October 11

|finalyear={{Baseball year|1890}}

|finalteam=Toledo Maumees

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win/Loss Record

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat1value=62-80

|stat2value=3.86

|stat3value=607

|teams=

Buffalo Bisons ({{Baseball year|1883}})
Milwaukee Brewers (UA) ({{Baseball year|1884}})
Philadelphia Athletics ({{Baseball year|1885}})
New York Metropolitans ({{Baseball year|1885}}–{{Baseball year|1887}})
Toledo Maumees ({{Baseball year|1890}})

|highlights=

Pitched a no-hitter on September 28, 1884

}}

Edgar Leander Cushman (March 27, 1852 – September 26, 1915) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher from {{Baseball year|1883}}–{{Baseball year|1890}} for five teams in three different Major leagues spanning his six-year career.{{cite web| title = Ed Cushman's Stats | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/C/Pcushe101.htm | accessdate = 2008-04-04 }}

Career

Ed was born in Eagleville, Ohio, and made his first appearance in Majors with the {{Baseball year|1883}} Buffalo Bisons, but was only able to pitch in seven games, all of which he started, and had a respectable win–loss record of 3–3, as well as a 3.93 ERA.

For the following season, he played for the minor league Milwaukee Brewers, who would later join the newly formed and ill-fated Union Association as a late season replacement. Ed pitched extremely well, in the four games in which he pitched to finish the season, he had a record of 4–0, with a 1.00 ERA, 47 strikeouts in 36 innings pitched. He completed all four starts and pitched two shutouts, one of which was a no-hitter thrown on September 28, 1884, vs. the Washington Nationals, a 5–0 victory. It was the second and last no-hitter thrown in the Union Association, and was the second game the Brewers had played since joining the league as a late season replacement.{{cite web| title = Chronological List of No-Hitters | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/nohit_chrono.htm | accessdate = 2008-04-04 }} He followed up his no-hitter with eight more hitless innings on October 4, against the Boston Reds, when he finally surrendered a hit, a ninth inning bloop single, but holds on for the 2–0 shutout victory.{{cite web |title=Charlton's Baseball Chronology - 1884 |work=baseballlibrary.com |url=http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/byyear.php?year=1884 |accessdate=2008-04-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017224826/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/byyear.php?year=1884 |archivedate=2007-10-17 }}

His remarkable season with the Brewers earned him a shot with the Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association for the {{Baseball year|1885}} season. After 10 starts, he then moved to and finished the season with the New York Metropolitans, also of the Association. Late in the season, on September 16, in a game against the Pittsburgh Alleganys, he struck out eight batters in a row.{{cite web | title = Charlton's Baseball Chronology - 1885 | work = baseballlibrary.com | url = http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/byyear.php?year=1885 | accessdate = 2008-04-04 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080101103130/http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chronology/byyear.php?year=1885 | archivedate = 2008-01-01 }} He pitched for them during both the {{Baseball year|1886}} and {{Baseball year|1887}} seasons, earning the team award of Pitcher of the Year for the 1885 and 1886 seasons.{{cite web| title = The New York Metropolitans: Ed Cushman | work = hagenspan.com | url=http://www.hagenspan.com/NYMHall/metropolitans/edcus.html | accessdate = 2008-04-04 }}

For the {{Baseball year|1888}} season he returned to the minors, this time in the Western Association and played for Charlie Morton's Des Moines team. When Morton took over the minor league Toledo Maumee team, he moved several of his Des Moines players with him, including Cushman, who would play for that team through the {{Baseball year|1889}} season, and in {{Baseball year|1890}} season when the team earned Major League status by joining the American Association. This was the only season the Maumees played in the Majors.{{cite web| title = The Baseball Project: Ted Kennedy | work = sabr.org | url=http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=7432&bid=873 | accessdate = 2008-04-04 }}

Post-career

After his playing days, he worked as a conductor on the New York Central Railroad, and was also a restaurant owner at one time.{{cite web| title = Ed Cushman's Obit | work = thedeadballera.com | url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Obits_C/Cushman.Ed.Obit.html | accessdate = 2014-01-01 }} Ed died in Erie, Pennsylvania at the age of 63, and was buried in Erie Cemetery.