Sam Kimber

{{Short description|American baseball player (1854–1925)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Sam Kimber

|image=Sam Kimber.jpg

|position=Pitcher

|birth_date={{birth date|1852|10|29}}

|birth_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1925|11|6|1852|10|29}}{{cite news |title=The Dope |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-news-sam-kimber/137809284/ |work=The Daily News |date=November 7, 1925 |location=Lebanon, Pennsylvania |page=8}}

|death_place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 1

|debutyear=1884

|debutteam=Brooklyn Atlantics

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 29

|finalyear=1885

|finalteam=Providence Grays

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat1value=18–21

|stat2value=3.97

|stat3value=126

|teams=

• Brooklyn Atlantics (1884)
• Providence Grays (1885)

|awards=

• Pitched a no-hitter on October 4, 1884

}}

Samuel Jackson Kimber (October 29, 1852 – November 6, 1925) was an American Major League Baseball player who pitched one full season, for the 1884 Brooklyn Atlantics of the American Association, and one game for the 1885 Providence Grays of the National League.{{cite web| title = Sam Kimber's Stats | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/K/Pkimbs101.htm | access-date = 2008-03-07 }}

Although his career was short, Sam did have one shining moment, on October 4, 1884, he pitched baseball's first extra-inning no-hitter. He pitched this game against the Toledo Blue Stockings, a game that lasted ten innings and ended in a scoreless tie, when it was called because of darkness.{{cite book| title = The Dodgers Encyclopedia, pg. 296 | isbn = 9781582613161 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aKQ3CQYbYXkC&q=%22sam+kimber%22+baseball&pg=PA296 | access-date = 2008-03-07 | last1 = McNeil | first1 = William | date = September 2000 | publisher = Sports Publishing LLC }}

Kimber died in his hometown of Philadelphia, he was interred at Westminster Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.