Claude Judson "Chaucer" Elliott (November 17, 1876 – June 22, 1923) was a professional

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player. He was a right-handed

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over parts of two seasons (1904–1905) with the

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and

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. For his career, he compiled a 3–3 record in 22 appearances, with a 3.33

earned run average In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the average of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game). It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number ...

and 47

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s. He was a member of the

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champions

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, though he did not play in the

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. In 1905, Elliott relieved 8 times in his 10 appearances. Though saves were not an official statistic until 1969, Elliot was retroactively credited with six saves that season, a record at that time. His manager,

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, was one of the first to use a relief pitcher to save games. On June 29, 1905, while playing for the Giants, Elliott played a part in history that would be immortalized some 80 years later with the making of ''

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''. The movie included a depiction of

Moonlight Graham Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham (November 12, 1876 – August 25, 1965) was an American professional baseball player and physician who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. H ...

, who only played one inning in Major League baseball and never got an at-bat. It was Elliot who flied out ending the top of the ninth inning with Graham on deck. Elliott was born in

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. He died of muscular atrophy in Pardeeville at the age of 46.

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