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Lawrence J. Corcoran (August 10, 1859 – October 14, 1891) was an American professional
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player. He pitched for four different major-league teams from 1880 to 1887.


Biography

Corcoran was born in
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. He made his major-league debut in the 1880 season; he won 43 games and led the Chicago White Stockings (today's
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) to the
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championship.
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alternated him with pitcher Fred Goldsmith, giving Chicago the first true pitching rotation in professional baseball. In 1882, Corcoran became the first pitcher to throw two
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s in a career. Two seasons later, he became the first pitcher to throw three no-hitters, setting a record that stood until 1965, when
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threw his fourth no-hitter. Corcoran is credited with creating the first method of signaling pitches to his catcher, which consisted of moving a wad of
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in his mouth to indicate what pitch would be thrown. White Stockings
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, who caught bare-handed, credited Corcoran with being the toughest pitcher to catch and being responsible for several of his misshapen fingers. Naturally right-handed, Corcoran pitched four innings alternating throwing arms on June 16, 1884, due to the inflammation of his right index finger, making him a rare example of a
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. Corcoran had a " dead arm" by 1885, and by 1887 he was out of the league. Afflicted with
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, Corcoran died in
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, at the age of 32. He was interred in the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in East Orange. His brother Mike Corcoran pitched in one major-league game in 1884.{{cite web, title = Mike Corcoran , work = Baseball-Reference.com , url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/corcomi01.shtml , access-date = 2006-11-15


See also

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List of Major League Baseball annual ERA leaders In baseball, earned run average (ERA) is a statistic used to evaluate pitchers, calculated as the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. A pitcher is men by a baserunner who reached base while batting against that pitc ...
* List of Major League Baseball annual strikeout leaders *
List of Major League Baseball annual wins leaders Major League Baseball recognizes the player or players in each league with the most wins each season. In baseball, Win (baseball), wins are a baseball statistics, statistic used to evaluate pitchers. Credit for a win is given by the official scor ...
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List of Major League Baseball no-hitters Below is a list of Major League Baseball no-hitters, enumerating every no-hitter pitched in Major League Baseball history. The list also includes no-hit games that were broken up in extra innings or were in shortened games, although they have no ...


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