Howard Ehmke
Pitcher, Baseball Player
1894 – 1959
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Who was Howard Ehmke?
Howard Jonathan Ehmke was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He is best known for being the surprise starter who won Game 1 of the 1929 World Series for the Philadelphia Athletics at the age of 35. After retirement from baseball, he started his own company that began making the first tarpaulins to cover baseball diamonds during rain.
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- Born
- Apr 24, 1894
Silver Creek - Profession
- Lived in
- Jamestown
- Silver Creek
- Died
- Mar 17, 1959
Philadelphia
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on July 23, 2013
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