Died: March 30, 1952 in Avalon, PA. Deacon beat Cy Young in the first game in Boston, 7-3 with a season-high ten strikeouts, causing Boston manager Jimmy Collins to admit, “Phillippe pitched in masterly style” and Fred Clarke to add that “the Deacon was never in better condition, the way he cuts loose with the benders is a caution.” He pitched a four-hitter to win the third game and, after a travel day and a controversial rainout, won the fourth game as well 5-4, after which the Pirate fans hoisted him on their shoulders and carried him around Exposition Park. He pitched in 372 games, made 289 starts, had 242 complete games and pitched 27 shutouts. Deacon Phillippe. Eclipse Park was the name of three successive baseball grounds in Louisville, Kentucky in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His best season was 1903, when he and Leever were asked to make up for the defections of fellow pitching stalwarts Jack Chesbro and Jesse Tannehill to the American League. The Sporting News, May 27, 1953. A lifetime .189 hitter, Deacon entered the record books that season when he connected for an inside-the-park grand slam, becoming the last pitcher to accomplish the feat until Mel Stottlemyre did it in 1965. A six-time 20-game winner, Phillippe was the winner in the first World Series game in … He would go on to post a record of 21-17 in 321 innings for the eighth-place Colonels. DeValeria, Dennis and Jeanne Burke. Deacon Phillippe page at the Bullpen Wiki View splits adjusted to be per 162 games or 650 PAs First column (I) indicates when a split may be incomplete due to missing play-by-play data. Leever was apparently able to curve the ball around the barn instead. Ms. Kennedy had a daughter, Isabelle, who lived with them as well. 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In the words of a sportswriter analyzing an upcoming season, “He will be there again, as strong and good as ever, for Phil never does anything during the winter that would result detrimentally to him.” He would be a long-time friend and teammate of Sam Leever, a pitcher with a similar disposition and strikingly similar record, who was known as “Professor” or “Schoolmaster”. With two weeks remaining in the season, the Giants were leading the Cubs by four-and-a-half games and the Pirates by five. Like many of their neighbors, the Leevers were of Pennsylvania German heritage. With piercing blue eyes and brown hair that was thinning even early in his baseball career, Sam Leever was known as “The Goshen Schoolmaster,” as much for his appearance and serious disposition as for his off-season disposition. The Giants began losing and on October 4, the last scheduled day of the season, the Pirates met the Cubs at Chicago’s West Side Park, with a win clinching no worse than a tie for the pennant. A Quiet Hero: Deacon Phillippe 227 Chapter Seven. Honus Wagner. September-November, 1903; August 16, 1902; November 24, 1924. He hooked on with Minneapolis, joining old teammate Rube Waddell, and won seven games to help lead the Millers to the American Association championship. The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Biography Project is an effort to write a full-life biography of every major league player. Voted by the Pittsburgh fans as the greatest right-handed pitcher in Pirates history, Deacon Phillippe may have been the greatest control pitcher ever — his 1.25 walks per nine innings is the lower ratio of anyone who hurled after the modern pitching distance was established in 1893. He eventually retired from farming and he and Margaret moved into her family’s old place nearer to town. July 13, 1901; September-November, 1903; December 19, 1903; March 12, 1904; February 28, 1946. Though a sore right arm nagged him occasionally throughout his career, Leever never had another losing season, and never again had an ERA as high as 3.00. His record of 1.29 walks per nine innings over the course of his 19 years in the majors, 18 with the Pirates, ranks second on the modern list behind only teammate Deacon Phillippe’s 1.25. Position: Pitcher Bats: Right • Throws: Right 6-0, 180lb (183cm, 81kg) Born: May 23, 1872 in Rural Retreat, VA us. From 1876-2010 there have been 1,731 catchers and 8,410 pitchers and they have teamed up to form 48,314 different batteries in over 790,000 team games with 25,000+ Shutouts. But what about 1902 Deacon Phillippe? He died there on March 30, 1952, while watching television. 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