Red Faber
Pitcher, Baseball Player
1888 – 1976
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Who was Red Faber?
Urban Clarence "Red" Faber was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1914 through 1933, playing his entire career for the Chicago White Sox. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964.
Faber won 254 games over his 20-year career, a total which ranked 17th-highest in history upon his retirement. At the time of his retirement, he was the last legal spitballer in the American League; another legal spitballer, Burleigh Grimes, would later be traded to the AL and appear in 10 games for the Yankees in 1934.
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- Born
- Sep 6, 1888
Cascade - Ethnicity
- Luxembourgers
- Luxembourgian American
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Joseph's College, Indiana
- Loras College
- Lived in
- Cascade
- Died
- Sep 25, 1976
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on July 23, 2013
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