- Urban Shocker
Infobox MLB retired
name=Urban Shocker
position=Pitcher 
bgcolor1=#2a1301
bgcolor2=#fa5905
textcolor1=white
textcolor2=white
bats=Right
throws=Right
birthdate=August 22 ,1890
city-state|Cleveland|Ohio
deathdate=death date and age|1928|9|6|1890|6|28
city-state|Denver|Colorado
debutdate=April 24
debutyear= 1916
debutteam=New York Yankees
finaldate=May 30
finalyear=1928
finalteam=New York Yankees
stat1label=Win-Loss
stat1value=187-117
stat2label=ER.A
stat2value=3.17
stat3label=Strike out s
stat3value=983
teams=
*New York Yankees (1915-1916, 1925-1928)
* St. Louis Browns (1918-1924)highlights=
* Won 20 or more games in four consecutive seasons
* In by|1921, had a league leading 27 wins
* In by|1922, led the AL in strikeouts with 149Urban James Shocker (
August 22 1890 –September 9 1928 ), born Urbain Jacques Shockor inCleveland, Ohio , was aMajor League Baseball pitcher for theNew York Yankees and St. Louis Browns from by|1916 to by|1928.The right-handed hurler had four consecutive 20-game-winning seasons with the Browns in the early 1920s. During those four years, he was one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball. Urban was the last Yankees pitcher to legally throw a
spitball . He, and a handful of other pitchers, was grandfathered into the practice after it was banned by baseball in 1920.After his release from the Yankees in 1928, Shocker entered an exhibition tournament in Denver. He pitched in just one game on
August 6 against a team fromCheyenne, Wyoming and fared poorly in that outing. Around this time, he contractedpneumonia and was hospitalized shortly thereafter. He died inDenver, Colorado from a weakened heart caused by the disease.ee also
*
List of Major League Baseball leaders in career wins
*List of Major League Baseball saves champions
*List of Major League Baseball strikeout champions
*List of Major League Baseball wins champions External links
*Baseballstats |mlb= |espn= |br=s/shockur01 |fangraphs=1011918 |cube=S/urban-shocker
* [http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/library/columns/rw_050609.htm Tribute to the forgotten spitballer]
* [http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Shocker.Urban.Obit.html The Deadball Era]
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