Emil Yde

American baseball player (1900-1968)
Baseball player
Emil Yde
Pitcher
Born: (1900-01-28)January 28, 1900
Great Lakes, Illinois, U.S.
Died: December 4, 1968(1968-12-04) (aged 68)
Leesburg, Florida, U.S.
Batted: Both
Threw: Left
MLB debut
April 21, 1924, for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Last MLB appearance
October 3, 1929, for the Detroit Tigers
MLB statistics
Win–loss record49–25
Earned run average4.02
Strikeouts160
Teams
  • Pittsburgh Pirates (1924–27)
  • Detroit Tigers (1929)
Career highlights and awards
  • 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 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.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3] He served in the United States Navy during World War I.[4]

He moved to Leesburg, Florida during his playing career and eventually became a real estate dealer there.[4] In 1944, he ran for sheriff of Lake County, Florida but lost in the Democratic Party primary to Willis V. McCall.[5]

References

  1. ^ Snyder, John (2004). The World Series' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Championship Teams, Broken Dreams, and October Oddities. Potomac Books, Inc. ISBN 978-1-61234-052-4. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  2. ^ Forr, James; Proctor, David (2009). Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography. McFarland. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-7864-4385-7. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  3. ^ Louisa, Angelo J. (2015). The Pirates Unraveled: Pittsburgh's 1926 Season. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2254-5. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  4. ^ a b Lee, Bill (2015). The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others. McFarland. p. 438. ISBN 978-1-4766-0930-0. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  5. ^ Corsair, Gary (2004). The Groveland Four. p. 12. ISBN 1414072449. Retrieved 18 February 2020.

External links

  • Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
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Manager
Bill McKechnie
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