George Edward "Rube" Waddell was one of the zaniest characters ever
to play baseball. The legendary Connie Mack, who saw quite a few
cards during his nearly seven decade stint in the majors, once
observed that no other screwball he ever saw could hold a candle to
Rube. Mack also said that Rube's curveball was the best he'd ever
seen. Indeed, Waddell was one of the greatest pitchers in the
history of the game. Rube won 191 games in 13 seasons, had four
straight 20-win seasons for Mack and the Philadelphia A's, and
claimed six consecutive strikeout titles. In 1904 he struck out 349
batters, a record that held for six decades. This biography traces
his early life in western Pennsylvania, the fits and starts of his
first years in professional baseball, his big years with the A's,
and his subsequent fade into obscurity and his early death in a
sanatorium on April Fool's Day, 1914.
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