[Russ Ford, New York, AL (Baseball)] (LOC)
by Roger Clemens on March 25, 2011
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Of note:
"He is known as the creator of the ‘emery ball’, a pitch that was thrown with a ball that had been scuffed with a piece of emery. Ford won 26 games in his rookie season of 1910, becoming only the third player in major league history to win 20 games and strike out at least 200 batters in his first season. (Christy Mathewson and Pete Alexander are the others)"
Also of note, Ford was born in Brandon, Manitoba, and was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.
I guess "emery balls" were legal back then.
More on Russ Ford here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Ford
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Face Time, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
An even better bio of Russ Ford (and about 900+ other ballplayers) is at: bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=1758&…
they weren’t officially the Yankees yet in 1911, they were still the New York Highlanders.
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