Deadball Trivia

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by tiger8mush

didn't face Babe, so must be a Nat'l Leaguer. Marquard? Was it a HOFer?

There may be more than one answer so,

Babe may not have hit a home run in one of the years this happened, so it could be an American Leaguer.

Marquard is incorrect.

This feat could have been acheived by both a HOFer and a non-HOFer.

Hope this helps.

[trdcrdkid]

I know at least one pitcher who did this, but I cheated. He's not in the HOF, but he is in T206.

[tiger8mush]

Deacon Phillippe?

Unless this is a trick question and it was Babe Ruth - since he couldn't have pitched to himself haha.

[tiger8mush]

Waddell?

yeah I'm just gonna name every good pitcher that comes to mind

[trdcrdkid]

Now I found another one who did it, a HOFer. But I cheated again.

[trdcrdkid]

Oh, I found another HOFer who did it.

[frankbmd]

You can limit your reply to the number of innings pitched by your answer rather than the name.

Actually there may be multiple pairs as they didn't call this the deadball era for nothing.

[trdcrdkid]

I found a fourth one, a non-HOFer. All four that I've found are in T206.

[frankbmd]

Question revised to accommodate Mr. Kathman.

[trdcrdkid]

Frank -- after doing more research, I've found that there were only two guys who did this after 1910, and with that limitation your (almost original) question would have been correctly answerable. I found four guys who did it between 1900 and 1910, one of whom did it twice. Two of the six guys who did this are not in T206, one pre-1910 and one post-1910.

[frankbmd]

The two I have after 1910 both did it in the same year and both faced Ruth.

[Sean]

I'll guess that one of them was Eddie Plank. He would have done it before Ruth was in the majors.