Axel Lindstrom
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Axel Olaf Lindstrom (August 26, 1895 – June 24, 1940) was a
pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("Pitch (baseball), pitches") the Baseball (ball), baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out (baseball), retiring a batter (baseball), batter, ...
for the 1916
Philadelphia Athletics The Philadelphia Athletics were a Major League Baseball team that played in Philadelphia from 1901 to 1954, when they moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and became the Kansas City Athletics. Following another move in 1967, they became the Oakland ...
. Lindstrom was born in
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
in 1895 and died in
North Carolina North Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia (U.S. stat ...
in 1940. The 1916 Athletics had the worst winning percentage of any major league baseball team in the 20th century. Lindstrom made his lone appearance at the close of the season, pitching the last four innings on October 3. He allowed just two earned runs to get the save. This meant that Lindstrom actually ended the season tied for the team lead in saves, with one. (Two other pitchers also saved one game apiece for the 1916 A's.) In his only two big league at-bats, he went one-for-two, and singled home a run. After his brief stint in the majors, Lindstrom played several seasons with
Worcester Worcester may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Worcester, England, a city and the county town of Worcestershire in England ** Worcester (UK Parliament constituency), an area represented by a Member of Parliament * Worcester Park, London, Engl ...
in the Eastern League, and finished his career in the
South Atlantic League The South Atlantic League, often informally called the Sally League, is a Minor League Baseball league with teams predominantly in states along the Atlantic coast of the United States from New York to Georgia. A Class A league for most of its h ...
.


External links


1916 American League Team Statistics and Standings
Major League Baseball pitchers Philadelphia Athletics players Mobile Bears players Nashville Vols players New Haven Profs players Toledo Mud Hens players Wilkes-Barre Barons (baseball) players Worcester Boosters players Worcester Busters players Major League Baseball players from Sweden 1895 births 1940 deaths Swedish emigrants to the United States Fitchburg (minor league baseball) players 20th-century American sportsmen People from Sundsvall Municipality {{US-baseball-pitcher-1890s-stub