Ernie Nevel

{{short description|American baseball player (1918-1988)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Ernie Nevel

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1918|8|17}}

|birth_place=Charleston, Missouri

|death_date={{death date and age|1988|7|10|1918|8|17}}

|death_place=Springfield, Missouri

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 26

|debutyear=1950

|debutteam=New York Yankees

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 30

|finalyear=1953

|finalteam=Cincinnati Redlegs

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=0–1

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=6.10

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=9

|stat4label=Innings pitched

|stat4value={{frac|20|2|3}}

|teams =

• New York Yankees ({{Baseball year|1950}}–{{Baseball year|1951}})
• Cincinnati Redlegs ({{Baseball year|1953}})

}}

Ernie Wyre Nevel (August 17, 1918 – July 10, 1988) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played in {{Baseball year|1950}} and {{Baseball year|1951}} with the New York Yankees and in {{Baseball year|1953}} with the Cincinnati Redlegs. Born in Charleston, Missouri, he batted and threw right-handed, stood {{convert|5|ft|11|in}} tall and weighed {{convert|190|lb}}.

Nevel had a 0–1 record, with a 6.10 ERA, in 14 games pitched as a big leaguer. In {{frac|20|2|3}} innings pitched, he allowed 27 hits and eight bases on balls, with nine strikeouts to his credit. Of his 14 appearances, one came as a starting pitcher. With the Yankees having already clinched the 1950 American League pennant, Nevel started the final game of the regular season on Sunday, October 1, against the third-place Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. He allowed four hits and four earned runs in three innings of work, and took the loss,[http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1950/B10010BOS1950.htm 1950-10-1 box score from Retrosheet] his only decision in Major League Baseball. On August 28, 1952, while he was on the roster of the Triple-A Kansas City Blues, he was one of four players (and $35,000 in cash) shipped to Cincinnati for former star hurler Ewell Blackwell, acquired by the Yankees for the pennant drive.

Twenty-six years old when he first broke into professional baseball, Nevel concluded a nine-year pro career in 1954. He died in Springfield, Missouri, at the age of 69.