Tietje
Tietje is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: * Les Tietje (1910–1996), American baseball player * Tietje Spannenburg-Pagels (1906 – after 1933), Dutch ''kortebaan'' speed skater See also

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Les Tietje
Leslie William "Toots" Tietje (September 11, 1910 – October 2, 1996) was an American professional baseball pitcher with the Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Browns of Major League Baseball between 1933 and 1938. Tietje batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Sumner, Iowa. He broke into professional baseball in 1931, pitching for the Waterloo Hawks and going 8–13 with a 5.03 ERA. He spent 1932 with Waterloo, going 8–14, and hitting .212 with four home runs. In 1933, he spent most of the season with the Dallas Steers, going 14–10 with a 3.51 ERA. He earned a call up to the big leagues, and on September 18 he made his debut. He started three games for the White Sox that year, going 2–0 with a 2.42 ERA. As he would throughout his entire career, he walked more batters than he struck out: in 22 innings, he walked 15 batters and struck out only nine. According to John Carmichael, Tietje was on pace for a successful career, but he developed arthritis in his arm and was ...
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