Ed Walsh
Object Details
- Description
- Pitcher Edward Augustine Walsh (1881-1959) played Major League baseball from 1904-1917. The right hander spent all his career with the Chicago White Sox, excepting for his final season, when he took the mound for the Boston Braves.
- Walsh's 1.82 lifetime earned run average remains the lowest in Major League Baseball History (minimum1,000 innings.) Big Ed won 195 games against 126 losses in a career shortened by injury, throwing 1,736 strikeouts.
- In 1924, Walsh managed the White Sox for a single season. Roundly accepted as on the most dominant pitchers of his era, Walsh was elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- before 1960
- ID Number
- CL.310547.034.01
- catalog number
- 310547.034.01
- accession number
- 310547
- Associated Name
- Chicago White Sox
- Object Name
- Card, Baseball
- autograph, baseball
- autograph
- Other Terms
- Card, Baseball; Autograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 in x 6 in; 10.16 cm x 15.24 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- name of sport or game
- Baseball
- level of sport
- Professional
- Major League
- web subject
- Sports
- Record ID
- nmah_672709
