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What's exceptional about Charlie Root Chicago Cubs 1940 ?


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Charlie Root of the Chicago Cubs was the oldest (41 yrs) of all 229 pitchers in 1940.

outdid Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox (40 yrs), Joe Heving of the Boston Red Sox (40 yrs), Syl Johnson of the Philadelphia Phillies (40 yrs), and Ted Lyons of the Chicago White Sox (40 yrs), and 224 others, ending with Hal Newhouser of the Detroit Tigers (19 yrs).



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References

  1. A player's age is calculated by subtracting his birth year from the season year. The raw data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
  2. Batting, pitching, fielding, personal, team, and awards data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Profile

Charlie Root of the 1940 Chicago Cubs threw right-handed, played on a losing team, played in Wrigley Field, and was born in Ohio.

  • achievement score (-0.4 see References)
  • assists (22)
  • complete games (1)
  • double plays (0)
  • games finished (10)
  • games played (36)
  • games started (8)
  • innings pitched (112.0)
  • putouts (3)
  • saves (1)
  • shutouts (0)
  • strikeouts (50)
  • strikeouts per nine innings (4.0)
  • wins (2)
  • balks (0)
  • earned run average (3.86)
  • earned runs (48)
  • errors (0)
  • hit by pitch (1)
  • hits (118)
  • hits per nine innings (9.5)
  • homers given up (9)
  • homers per nine innings (.7)
  • losses (4)
  • runs allowed (61)
  • walks (33)
  • walks per nine innings (2.7)
  • wild pitches (0)
  • age (41 yrs)
  • batters faced (490)
  • height (5'10")
  • innings pitched per game (3.1)
  • weight (190 lbs)

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