Emil Yde

{{Short description|American baseball player (1900–1968)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Emil Yde

|position=Pitcher

|image=Emil Yde 1924.png

|caption=

|bats=Both

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date|1900|1|28|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Great Lakes, Illinois, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1968|12|4|1900|1|28}}

|death_place=Leesburg, Florida, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 21

|debutyear=1924

|debutteam=Pittsburgh Pirates

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=October 3

|finalyear=1929

|finalteam=Detroit Tigers

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=49–25

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=4.02

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=160

|teams=

• Pittsburgh Pirates (1924–27)
• Detroit Tigers (1929)

|highlights=

• World Series champion (1925)

}}

Emil Ogden Yde (January 28, 1900 – December 4, 1968) was an American left-handed professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of four seasons in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1924–27) and Detroit Tigers in 1929. As a rookie in 1924, Yde led the National League in shutouts with four and in winning percentage (.842) with a Win–loss record of 16–3.

In {{wsy|1925}}, Yde became the first pitcher ever to allow back-to-back home runs in a World Series when Goose Goslin and Joe Harris hit consecutive homers in the third inning of the fourth game of the series.{{cite book |last1=Snyder |first1=John |title=The World Series' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Championship Teams, Broken Dreams, and October Oddities |date=2004 |publisher=Potomac Books, Inc. |isbn=978-1-61234-052-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CBwa-yFmL0C&pg=PT62 |access-date=18 February 2020 |language=en}}

He also was a good hitting pitcher in his brief major league career, posting a .233 batting average (74-for-317) with 46 runs, 1 home run and 28 RBI.

Yde was of Danish descent.{{cite book |last1=Forr |first1=James |last2=Proctor |first2=David |title=Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography |date=2009 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-4385-7 |page=64 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FcTHdGCujhcC&pg=PA64 |access-date=18 February 2020 |language=en}} His father worked at Naval Station Great Lakes and later as a superintendent at a coal yard. Yde attended both the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.{{cite book |last1=Louisa |first1=Angelo J. |title=The Pirates Unraveled: Pittsburgh's 1926 Season |date=2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2254-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-LhCgAAQBAJ |access-date=18 February 2020 |language=en}} He served in the United States Navy during World War I.{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Bill |title=The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others |date=2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0930-0 |page=438 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4oEwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA438 |access-date=19 February 2020 |language=en}}

He moved to Leesburg, Florida during his playing career and eventually became a real estate dealer there. In 1944, he ran for sheriff of Lake County, Florida but lost in the Democratic Party primary to Willis V. McCall.{{cite book |last1=Corsair |first1=Gary |title=The Groveland Four |date=2004 |isbn=1414072449 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XyCFBtej3IQC&pg=PA12 |access-date=18 February 2020}}