Ed Gill
{{short description|American baseball player (1895-1995)}}
{{Other uses|Edward Gill (disambiguation){{!}}Edward Gill}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Ed Gill
|image=Ed Gill.jpg
|position=Pitcher
|bats=Left
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{Birth date|1895|8|7}}
|birth_place=Somerville, Massachusetts
|death_date={{death date and age|1995|10|10|1895|8|7}}
|death_place=Brockton, Massachusetts
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=July 5
|debutyear={{Baseball year|1919}}
|debutteam=Washington Senators
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=September 28
|finalyear={{Baseball year|1919}}
|finalteam=Washington Senators
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=Win–loss record
|stat1value=1-1
|stat2label=Earned run average
|stat2value=4.82
|stat3label=Strikeouts
|stat3value=7
|teams=
- Washington Senators ({{Baseball year|1919}})
}}
Edward James Gill (August 7, 1895 – October 10, 1995){{cite book|chapter=Gill, Ed|title=The Baseball Necrology: The Post-baseball Lives and Deaths of Over 7,600 Major League Players and Others|author=Bill Lee|year=2003|publisher=McFarland & Company}} was an American professional baseball pitcher. He appeared in sixteen Major League Baseball games for the Washington Senators in {{baseball year|1919}}.
Biography
A native of Somerville, Massachusetts, Gill played college baseball for Holy Cross from 1916 to 1919, where he was coached by Baseball Hall of Famer Jesse Burkett.{{cite web|url=https://www.goholycross.com/fls/33100/import_content/sports/m-basebl/2011-12/files/2012baseballguide.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=33100 |title=2012 Holy Cross baseball yearbook |publisher=goholycross.com |access-date=August 30, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/player/ed-gill-114794 |title=Ed Gill |work=mlb.com |access-date=August 30, 2019}}{{cite web|author=David Allen Lambert |url=https://patch.com/massachusetts/stoughton/did-you-know-eddie-gill-old-time-stoughton-baseball-p53581487ee |title=Eddie Gill: Stoughton Baseball Player and WWI Veteran |publisher=patch.com |date=March 5, 2011 |access-date=September 25, 2019}} In 1916 and 1917, he played summer baseball for the Hyannis town team in what is now the Cape Cod Baseball League. At Hyannis, he pitched a no-hit, no-run game where he did not allow a ball to be hit to the outfield.{{cite news | title = No Hits or Runs Off Gill | pages = 7 | newspaper = Falmouth Enterprise | location = Falmouth, MA | date = August 26, 1916 | url = http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Falmouth/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=FEN%2F1916%2F08%2F26&id=Ar00704&sk=09109993&viewMode=image }}{{cite news | title = Baseball at Hyannis | pages = 2 | newspaper = Hyannis Patriot | location = Hyannis, MA | date = July 9, 1917 | url = http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Yarmouth/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=HYP%2F1917%2F07%2F09&id=Ar00208&sk=6E528182&viewMode=image }}{{cite news | title = Season Gleanings | pages = 5 | newspaper = Falmouth Enterprise | location = Falmouth, MA | date = September 9, 1938 | url = http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Falmouth/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=FEN%2F1938%2F09%2F09&id=Ar00502&sk=32379A97&viewMode=image }}
In Gill's lone season in the big leagues, he started two games and appeared in 16 total for the Senators, tossing 37.1 innings, and posting a 1–1 record with a 4.82 ERA. He made eight plate appearances, earning one base on balls and no hits.{{cite web|title = Ed Gill – Statistics and History – Baseball-Reference.com|work = Players|publisher = Baseball-Reference.com|year = 2012|url = https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gilled01.shtml|access-date = 2012-05-20}} His major league debut came on July 5, when he hurled a 1-2-3 inning of relief in Washington's 6–4 loss in the first game of a doubleheader with the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA191907051.shtml |title=Washington Senators at New York Yankees Box Score, July 5, 1919 |publisher=baseball-reference.com |access-date=January 9, 2020}} Gill's lone major league victory September 3 against the Philadelphia Athletics at Shibe Park. Gill tossed the first five innings and gave up two runs on four hits. He gave way to Jim Shaw, who went the rest of the way on the mound, and the Senators' Hall of Fame outfielder Sam Rice went 3–for–4 with a double, stolen base and two runs scored in the Senators' 4–3 win.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHA/PHA191909030.shtml |title=Washington Senators at Philadelphia Athletics Box Score, September 3, 1919 |publisher=baseball-reference.com |access-date=January 9, 2020}}
Gill died in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1995 at the age of 100.
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External links
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Category:American men centenarians
Category:Major League Baseball pitchers
Category:Baseball players from Brockton, Massachusetts
Category:Baseball players from Somerville, Massachusetts
Category:Holy Cross Crusaders baseball players