- Ernie Shore
Infobox MLB retired
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name=Ernie Shore
caption=Ernie Shore (left) withGrover Cleveland Alexander during the1915 World Series .
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position=Pitcher
bats=Right
throws=Right
birthdate=March 24 1891
deathdate=death date and age|1980|9|24|1891|3|24
debutdate=June 20
debutyear=by|1912
debutteam=New York Giants
finaldate=August 22
finalyear=by|1920
finalteam=New York Yankees
stat1label=Win-Loss
stat1value=65-43
stat2label=ERA
stat2value=2.47
stat3label=Strikeout s
stat3value=309
teams=
*New York Giants (by|1912)
*Boston Red Sox (by|1914-by|1917)
*New York Yankees (by|1919-by|1920)
highlights=
*3rd in the AL in ERA in 1915 with 1.64Ernest Grady Shore (born near
East Bend, North Carolina March 24 1891 -September 24 1980 ) was an American right-handedpitcher inMajor League Baseball for theBoston Red Sox during some of their best years in the 1910s. Along withBabe Ruth , he was sold by the Baltimore Orioles to the Red Sox, and like Ruth after him, he was dispatched to theNew York Yankees by the Red Sox's cash-poor owner,Harry Frazee , where he closed out his career.Shore's best year with the Red Sox was 1915, when he won 18, lost 8, and compiled a 1.64
earned run average . He was 3-1 inWorld Series action in 1915 and 1916. He missed the by|1918 Red Sox World Championship season, having enlisted in the military in that war year.His most famous game occurred on
June 23 , by|1917, against the Washington Senators in the first game of a doubleheader atFenway Park . Ruth started the game, walking the first batter, Ray Morgan. As newspaper accounts of the time tell it, the short-fused Ruth then engaged in a heated argument with apparently equally short-fused home plate umpireBrick Owens . Owens tossed Ruth out of the game, and the even-more-enraged Ruth then slugged the ump a glancing blow before being taken off the field; the catcher was also ejected. Shore was recruited to pitch, and came in with very few warmup pitches. With a new pitcher and catcher, runner Morgan tried to steal but was thrown out. Shore then proceeded to retire the remaining 26 Senators without surrendering a hit, earning a 4-0 Red Sox win. The game is sometimes erroneously referred to as a "perfect game in relief," and some baseball historians have argued that it should count as ano-hitter . Following the game, Ruth paid a $100 fine, was suspended for 10 games, and issued a public apology for his behavior.Shore was Sheriff of Forsyth County,
North Carolina for many years, and led the 1950s effort to build aminor league baseball park in Winston-Salem, a park that was ultimately named for him and still serves as the home field of theWinston-Salem Warthogs of theCarolina League .Shore graduated from
Guilford College in 1913.External links
*baseball-reference|id=s/shoreer01
* [http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Shore.Ernie.Obit.html The Deadball Era]
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