Elmer Jacobs

{{Short description|American baseball player (1892–1958)}}

{{for|the American architect|Elmer F. Jacobs}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Elmer Jacobs

|image=1923 Zeenut Elmer Jacobs.jpg

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{birth date|1892|8|10}}

|birth_place=Salem, Missouri, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1958|2|10|1892|8|10}}

|death_place=Salem, Missouri, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 23

|debutyear=1914

|debutteam=Philadelphia Phillies

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 13

|finalyear=1927

|finalteam=Chicago White Sox

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=50–81

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=3.55

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=336

|teams=

• Philadelphia Phillies (1914)
• Pittsburgh Pirates (1916–1918)
• Philadelphia Phillies (1918–1919)
• St. Louis Cardinals (1919–1920)
• Chicago Cubs (1924–1925)
• Chicago White Sox (1927)

}}

William Elmer Jacobs (August 10, 1892 – February 10, 1958) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1914 to 1927. He played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and Chicago White Sox.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacobel01.shtml "Elmer Jacobs Statistics and History"]. baseball-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-02-08. Jacobs' key pitch was the curveball. In 1926, he was suspended for 10 days after being caught with foreign substances on the mound.James, Bill and Neyer, Rob. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7FfRLE6I5EEC The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers] (Simon & Schuster, 2004), p. 254.