- Bill Hawke
Infobox MLB retired
name=Bill Hawke
position=Pitcher
birthdate=April 28 ,1870
city-state|Elsmere|Delaware
deathdate=death date and age|1902|12|11|1870|4|28
city-state|Wilmington|Delaware
bats=Right
throws=Right
debutdate=July 28
debutyear=by|1892
debutteam=St. Louis Browns
finaldate=September 30
finalyear=by|1894
finalteam=Baltimore Orioles
stat1label=Win/Loss Record
stat2label=Strikeout s
stat3label=Earned run average
stat1value=32-31
stat2value=193
stat3value=4.98
teams=
*St. Louis Browns (by|1892–by|1893)
*Baltimore Orioles (by|1893–by|1894)
highlights=
* Pitched aNo-hitter onAugust 16 ,1893 against the Washington Senators.William Victor "Bill" Hawke (
April 28 1870 –December 11 1902 ) was an AmericanMajor League Baseball player who pitched for three seasons, all in theNational League , with a career record of 32 wins and 31 losses.cite web| title = Bill Hawke's Stats | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/H/Phawkb101.htm | accessdate = 2008-01-29 ]Career
Born in
Elsmere, Delaware , he began his major league career with the St. Louis Browns in by|1892. He pitched in 14 games that first season, with a 5-5 win/loss record and threw oneshutout . Bill split by|1893 season between the Browns and the Baltimore Orioles. It was for that latter, that he pitched ano-hitter , 5-0 victory against the Washington Senators onAugust 16 ,1893 . It was the first no-hitter at the new distance from thepitcher's mound tohome plate . For the 1893 season, the mound was moved from 50 feet to 60 feet 6 inches, the distance that is still used to this day.cite web| title = Bill Hawke's profile | work = delawarebaseball.com | url=http://www.delawarebaseball.com/hawk1.html#tab7 | accessdate = 2008-01-29 ] He finished his career the following season, with a 16-9 record for the National League champion Baltimore Orioles.cite web| title = 1894 Baltimore Orioles team page | work = baseball-reference.com | url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BLN/1894.shtml | accessdate = 2008-01-29 ]Post-career
On December 11, 1902, he died of
carcinoma cite web| title = The Dead Ball Era: Too Young To Die | work = thedeadballera.com | url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/tooyoung.html | accessdate = 2008-01-29 ] at the age of 32 inWilmington, Delaware , and was interred at Wilmington & Brandywine Cemetery in Wilmington.References
ee also
*
List of Major League Baseball no-hitters External links
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* [http://tripleplays.sabr.org/tp_pos1.htm Triple plays]Persondata
NAME = Hawke, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Hawke, Bill
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Major League Baseball player
DATE OF BIRTH = April 28, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH = Elsmere, Delaware
DATE OF DEATH = December 11, 1902
PLACE OF DEATH = Wilmington, Delware
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