Walt Justis

{{Short description|American baseball player (1883–1941)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|image=Walt Justis card.jpg

|name=Walt Justis

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1883|8|17}}

|birth_place=Moores Hill, Indiana

|death_date={{death date and age|1941|10|4|1883|8|17}}

|death_place=Greendale, Indiana

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=July 12

|debutyear={{mlby|1905}}

|debutteam=Detroit Tigers

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=August 1

|finalyear={{mlby|1905}}

|finalteam=Detroit Tigers

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=0–0

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=8.10

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=0

|teams=

• Detroit Tigers ({{mlby|1905}})

}}

Walter Newton Justis (August 17, 1883 – October 4, 1941), nicknamed "Smoke", was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in {{mlby|1905}} with the Detroit Tigers. He batted and threw right-handed. Justis had a 0–0 record, with an 8.10 ERA, in 2 games, in his one-year career.

He spent several years playing professional ball in various minor leagues. In 1908, he set a still-standing minor league record by pitching four no-hitters for the Lancaster Lanks. In 1913, his last season, he famously threw a shutout to win the home opener for the premiere season of the Covington Blue Sox at Federal Park (two blocks from where a sports bar now carries his namesake).{{Cite web|date=2018-06-13|title=Smoke Justis: The Harder They Hit - The Harder I Threw|url=https://studiogaryc.com/2018/06/13/smoke-justis-the-harder-they-hit-the-harder-i-threw/|access-date=2022-02-21|website=Studio Gary C|language=en-US}}

He was born in Moores Hill, Indiana, and died in Greendale, Indiana.