- Ed Klepfer
Infobox MLB retired
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bgcolor2=maroon
textcolor1=white
textcolor2=white
name=Ed Klepfer
position=Pitcher
bats=Right
throws=Right
birthdate=birth date|1888|3|17|mf=y
deathdate=death date and age|1950|8|9|1888|3|17
debutdate=July 11
debutyear=by|1914
debutteam=New York Yankees
finaldate=September 5
finalyear=by|1919
finalteam=Cleveland Indians
stat1label=ERA
stat1value=2.81
stat2label=Record
stat2value=22-17
stat3label=Strikeouts
stat3value=165
teams=
*New York Highlanders (1911)
*New York Yankees (1913)
*Chicago White Sox (1915)
*Cleveland Indians (1915-1917, 1919)
highlights=
*Had the best win-lost pecentage in 1917 at .778.Edward Lloyd Klepfer, who was commonly known as "Big Ed", is a former Major League Baseball
spitball pitcher who played for theNew York Highlanders ,Chicago White Sox andCleveland Indians from 1911 to 1919.He was born on
March 17 ,1888 inSummerville, Pennsylvania . He batted and threw right-handed and was also 6'0", 180 pounds. Klepfer attendedPenn State University .Klepfer made his big league debut on
July 4 ,1911 with the Highlanders. His career was chopped up due to time spent fighting inWorld War I , as part of theAmerican Expeditionary Forces in France. At one time in his war fighting tenure, he was gassed.Perhaps the most extraordinary part of his career was his second to last season-1917. He went 14-4 with a 2.37 ERA in 213 innings. He finished his career with a 22-17 record and a 2.98 ERA in 98 games.
Even though Klepfer was a fairly productive pitcher, he will still go down in history as one of the worst hitters (pitcher or otherwise) to ever step on the diamond. In 125 career at-bats, he collected 6 hits for a paltry .048
batting average .He played his last game on September 5, 1919.
After baseball, Klepfer became an independent oil operator and then in 1946 went to work for C.W. Titus, an oilman in
Tulsa, Oklahoma . Klepfer died onAugust 9 ,1950 in a hospital in Tulsa. His body was laid to rest atRose Hill Cemetery .According to [http://www.baseball-reference.com/ Baseball Reference] , he compares statistically to
Slow Joe Doyle .Major Transaction
On August 21, 1915, the White Sox traded Klepfer along with
Larry Chappell ,Braggo Roth and cash forShoeless Joe Jackson .ee also
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Chicago White Sox all-time roster
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