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Samuel Howard (Howie) Camnitz (August 22, 1881 - March 2, 1960) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball and the Philadelphia Phillies (1913[end]) in the National League and for the Pittsburgh Rebels (1914-15) in the Federal League. A native of Covington, Kentucky, he batted and threw right handed. In an 11-season career, Camnitz posted a 133-106 record with 915 strikeouts and a 2.75 ERA in 2085.1 innings pitched. Camnitz pitched briefly with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1904 and 1906. In his first full season in 1907, he had a 13-8 record with a 2.15 ERA in 180 innings, including a five-inning no-hitter against the New York Giants on August 23rd. The next year he went 16-9 with a 1.56 ERA and 15 complete games in 19 starts. With a workhorse approach and an excellent curveball, Camnitz collected three 20-win seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1909-12, leading his team to the 1909 World Series after winning 25 games in the regular season and tying Christy Mathewson for the National League lead winning percentage (.806). Camnitz pitched at least 240 innings for seven consecutive years (1908-14) with a career-high 283 innings in 1909, winning 20 games in 1911 and 22 in 1912. After a 6-17 start in 1913, he was sent by the Pirates to the Philadelphia Phillies in the midseason. He pitched in just nine games for them and had a 3-3 record, then jumped to the Pittsburgh Rebels in the Federal League in 1914 and posted a 14-19 mark. After battling arm problems, he retired from playing in 1915. Camnitz died in Louisville, Kentucky, at age of 78. from Howie Camnitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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He looks quite little one great-uncle of mine. Who was not in baseball. Great capture

That photo is not a "capture" -- it was a posed shot.

victuallers2: thank you for the additional information about Howie Camnitz. We will add some of it to the record for this image when we update.

The above photo probably was taken in the summer of 1913, when Howie Camnitz was still pitching for the Pittsburgh Pirates. His start that year was lackluster, so he was banished to the Philadelphia team, where he didn't do much better. Early in 1914, he grabbed a chance to return to Pittsburgh by joining a new team, the Pittsburgh Rebels -- one of eight teams in the newly-formed Federal League (whose existence was brief). The report of his leap to the Federals likely was the news event that impelled the Bain News Agency to circulate this photo of Camnitz to its subscribers. Camnitz continued with the Rebels in 1915, but retired from baseball in that year, because of problems with his pitching arm.

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