Eddie Kolb

Infobox MLB retired
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name=Eddie Kolb
position=Pitcher
bats=Right
throws=Right
birthdate=July 20 1880
city-state|Cincinnati|Ohio
deathdate=death date and age|1949|10|1|1880|7|20
city-state|Calgary|Canada
debutdate=October 15
debutyear=by|1899
debutteam=Cleveland Spiders
finaldate=October 15
finalyear=by|1899
finalteam=Cleveland Spiders
stat1label=Games pitched
stat1value=1
stat2label=E.R.A.
stat2value=10.13
stat3label=Innings pitched
stat3value=8
teams=
*Cleveland Spiders (by|1899)
highlights=

Edward William "Eddie" Kolb (July 20 1880 – October 1 1949) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher from Cincinnati, Ohio, who pitched one game for the by|1899 Cleveland Spiders.cite web| title = Eddie Kolb's career statistics | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/K/Pkolbe101.htm | accessdate = 2007-12-11 ] The Spiders that season were not a good team, compiling a historically low win/loss record of 20-134.cite web| title = 1899 Cleveland Spiders | work = baseball-reference.com | url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CLV/1899.shtml | accessdate = 2007-12-11 ] To finish off the season, the team ended with a 35 game road trip, losing 40 of their last 41 games. It was on the last game of the schedule, on October 15, that the team allowed a clerk at a local tobacco shop to pitch a game in exchange for a box of cigars.cite web| title = Baseball's Most Wanted by Floyd Conner, pg. 7 | work = books.google.com | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-CBQRtOgxacC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=%22joe+borden%22+baseball&source=web&ots=IyvIbAn_oe&sig=p1vMWX_Ir4s-mMkQHaoHK3KAK8M#PPA7,M1 | accessdate = 2007-12-11 ] In that game, he pitched a complete game, giving up 18 hits, and 19 runs, 9 of which were earned. He did, however, did get one hit in four at bats.

After the Cleveland Spiders folded after the season, and Eddie's short career came to end, he continued his enthusiastic involvement in baseball, playing and managing in several semi-professional leagues, spending his winters in Florida. At one point, he attempted to purchase the Montreal team of the New England League in by|1908, which turned out to be unsuccessful. Having spent more than 15 years in baseball, he settled in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and ran a successful restaurant. He ran his restaurant for 22 years until he became heavily involved in the development of an oil field in Turner Valley. It was this involvement that eventually saw him named as the first secretary of the Alberta Petroleum Association, which became the Western Canada Petroleum Association.cite web| title = SABR Biography | work = sabr.org | url=http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=1569&pid=7692 | accessdate = 2007-12-11 ] Eddie died at the age of 69 in Calgary, and was cremated.

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Persondata
NAME = Kolb, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Kolb, Edward William
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Major League Baseball player, Oil man
DATE OF BIRTH = July 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH = Cincinnati, Ohio
DATE OF DEATH = October 1, 1949
PLACE OF DEATH = Calgary, Alberta, Canada