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| Keywords: Babe Ruth and other Red Sox Pitchers, 1915.jpg Left to right George Rube Foster 1888 “1976 Carl Mays 1891 “1971 Ernest Ernie Shore 1891 “1980 George Herman Babe Ruth 1895 “1948 and Hubert Benjamin Dutch Leonard 1892 “1952 When signed by the Boston Red Sox in 1914 the thin muscular 6 ™2 Babe Ruth was a gifted pitcher In 1915 he established himself as a star with an 18 “8 win-loss record and a 2 44 ERA The next year his league-leading nine shutouts and 1 75 ERA helped the Red Sox repeat as world champions Wartime restrictions shortened the 1918 season and thinned the ranks of players As a married man Ruth was not drafted Ruth played the outfield as well as pitched responding with a 13 “7 record; he was also tied for a league-leading eleven home runs His two shutouts in the 1918 World Series set a record for scoreless innings that stood until 1961 During 1919 his last season with the Red Sox he gave up pitching to become a full-time outfielder By that time he had compiled an 89 “46 win-loss record with a 2 28 ERA leaving little doubt he could have been one of baseball ™s greatest pitchers Institution National Portrait Gallery Washington 1915 Underwood Underwood PD-old http //newsdesk si edu/snapshot/babe-ruth-and-other-red-sox-pitchers Babe Ruth 1915 in Major League Baseball Dutch Leonard left-handed pitcher Ernie Shore | ||||
