Word: marquard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...higher rating for efficiency. Most startling of the many pitching statistics that prove Hubbell the ablest member of his profession currently performing was his record, started last July, of winning 24 league games in a row. Closest approach to this record was made in 1911-12 by Rube Marquard who won 20 straight games...
...soar: at Pelham Manor, N. Y. ¶ The New York Giants. 4-to-1: a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, in which famed left-handed Pitcher Carl Hubbell tied the modern major-league record of 20 consecutive League victories established by left-handed Giant Pitcher Rube Marquard in 1911 and 1912; in New York...
...Pitcher Hubbell's proudest record there is less than one game for every 100 of First-Baseman Gehrig's, but the record is not, on that account, the less impressive. In the long history of organized baseball, until last week only seven pitchers (Rowe, Grove, Wood, Johnson, Marquard, Keefe, Radbourne) had ever been able to win 16 or more games in a row. Last week, the game before the one that clinched the Pennant for the Giants made Hubbell the eighth...