John Henry "Rip" Vowinkel (November 18, 1884 – July 13, 1966) was a

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...

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, ...

. Vowinkel played for the

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in . In six career games, he had a 3–3 record with a 4.17 ERA. He batted and threw left-handed. Vowinkel was born and died in

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External links

Baseball Reference.com page

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(Baseball BioProject) 1884 births 1966 deaths Cincinnati Reds players Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Oswego County, New York Utica Pent-Ups players Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players Newark Indians players Harrisburg Senators players People from Oswego, New York 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseball-pitcher-1880s-stub