Edward Marvin "Big Ed" Reulbach (December 1, 1882 – July 17, 1961) was an American

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. He helped the

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win the

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and 1908 World Series.

Career

Reulbach played college baseball at the

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in 1903 and 1904. He played for the

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in 1905, accumulating a 4–0 record before signing a contract with the Chicago Cubs in May. Reulbach won at least 17 games in every season from 1905 to 1909. In the 1906 World Series (ultimately won in six games by the

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), Reulbach shone in Game 2 at South Side Park, giving up only one hit, a seventh-inning single to Jiggs Donahue. This rare World Series low-hit game was matched by fellow Cubs pitcher Claude Passeau in

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when he threw just the second one-hitter in Series history, surpassed by Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5 of the

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. Reulbach helped the Cubs win the 1907 World Series. His best year was 1908, when he won 24 games for the World Series champion Cubs, their last Series championship until they won it again in 2016. Reulbach pitched two shutouts in one day against the

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on September 26, 1908. No other pitcher has ever accomplished this feat in the major leagues. Reulbach played for the Cubs until 1913. He then had short stints with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Newark Pepper, and

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before retiring from baseball in 1917. He finished his MLB career with a 182–106 win–loss record, a 2.28

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, a 123 ERA+, and 1,137

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s in 2,632.1

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."Ed Reulbach"
baseball-reference.com. Retrieved January 21, 2024. Reulbach died in 1961 on the same day (July 17) as

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and was buried in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair. Reulbach was the last surviving Chicago Cub to have played in the 1907 and 1908 World Series. Reulbach was a Roman Catholic and is buried in the Immaculate Conception Cemetery, a Catholic cemetery in Essex County, New Jersey.

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The Deadball Era
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