Jim Hughes

Who was Jim Hughes?

James Robert Hughes was an American professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of six seasons with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox. For his career, he compiled a 15–13 record in 172 appearances, all but one as a relief pitcher, with an 3.83 earned run average and 165 strikeouts. Hughes was a member of four National League pennant-winning Dodgers teams, though he participated in only the 1953 World Series

Jim's older brother William P. Hughes, Jr., was stabbed to death during game five of the 1953 World Series. He was watching the game on television at his home in Chicago and in a state of drunkenness got in a fight with his wife, Genevieve, who fatally stabbed him with a kitchen knife. Genevieve originally said that she was at the kitchen sink peeling potatoes with a knife when her husband came up behind her and kissed her. This startled her and she accidentally stabbed him. She later told police that they were having an argument.

Hughes was born and later died in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 78.