Ed Walsh Jr.
{{Short description|American baseball player (1905–1937)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Ed Walsh (Jr.)
|position=Pitcher
|image=Ed Walsh Jr. 1933.jpeg
|width=150px
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{Birth date|1905|2|11}}
|birth_place=Meriden, Connecticut, U.S.
|death_date={{Death date and age|1937|10|31|1905|2|11}}
|death_place=Meriden, Connecticut, U.S.
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=July 4
|debutyear=1928
|debutteam=Chicago White Sox
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=September 25
|finalyear=1932
|finalteam=Chicago White Sox
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=Win–loss record
|stat1value=11–24
|stat2label=Earned run average
|stat2value=5.57
|stat3label=Strikeouts
|stat3value=107
|teams=
- Chicago White Sox ({{Baseball year|1928}}–{{Baseball year|1930}}, {{Baseball year|1932}})
}}
Edward Arthur Walsh (February 11, 1905 – October 31, 1937) was an American professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was from Meriden, Connecticut, and was the son of Hall of Famer Ed Walsh. He played four seasons in the Majors, all with Chicago White Sox, from {{Baseball year|1928}} through {{Baseball year|1932}}.{{cite web| title = Ed Walsh Jr's Stats | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/W/Pwalse102.htm | accessdate = 2008-04-11 }}
Career
After his graduation from the University of Notre Dame, where he also played college baseball, he joined the Chicago White Sox, the team that his father had become famous playing for years earlier.{{cite web|title=Ed Walsh Jr's Obituary |work=The New York Times, Monday, November 1st, 1937 |url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Walsh.EdJr.Obit.html |accessdate=2008-04-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061113001211/http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Walsh.EdJr.Obit.html |archivedate=November 13, 2006 }} Over the first two years of his career, he spent most of time as a starting pitcher, with infrequent performances out of the bullpen. He found little success though, as his ERA totals were 4.96, and 5.65, with a combined record of 10–18 for the {{Baseball year|1928}} and {{Baseball year|1929}} seasons. The following year, he was no longer part of the pitching rotation, and spent most of his time as a relief pitcher, appearing in 37 games, also without much success. After the {{Baseball year|1930}} season, he only had one more showing with the Sox and the Majors, pitching in four games in {{Baseball year|1932}}.
Before the {{Baseball year|1933}} season, he was bought by Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League, where he has the claim to fame for stopping young Joe DiMaggio's minor league record 61-game hitting streak.{{cite web| title = The Baseball Biography Project: Ed Walsh | work = by Stuart Schimler @ SABR.org | url=http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=1779&pid=14785 | accessdate = 2008-04-11 }}{{cite web| title = DiMaggio's 61-Game Hitting Streak, Pacific Coast League | work = by Dennis Gaffney | url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dimaggio/peopleevents/pande07.html | accessdate = 2008-04-11 }}
Death
He suddenly became ill in late 1937, and he returned to his parents' home in Meriden, where he lapsed into a coma and died at the age of 32. It was determined that he had suffered from an acute heart ailment caused by chronic rheumatism. He was interred at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Meriden.
See also
References
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External links
{{Baseballstats|br=w/walshed02}}
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Category:Major League Baseball pitchers
Category:Chicago White Sox players
Category:Notre Dame Fighting Irish baseball players
Category:Sportspeople from Meriden, Connecticut
Category:Baseball players from New Haven County, Connecticut