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1911

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Richard Norton said:
Russell William Ford (April 25, 1883 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada – January 24, 1960 in Rockingham, NC) was a baseball pitcher during the dead-ball era of the early 1900s. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Ford
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Denny Gill said:
Of note: "He is known as the creator of the 'emery ball', a pitch that was thrown with a ball that had been scuffed with a piece of emery. Ford won 26 games in his rookie season of 1910, becoming only the third player in major league history to win 20 games and strike out at least 200 batters in his first season. (Christy Mathewson and Pete Alexander are the others)" Also of note, Ford was born in Brandon, Manitoba, and was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.
Art Siegel said:
I guess "emery balls" were legal back then.
Lotus Johnson said:
More on Russ Ford here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Ford
minions & myrmidons said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Face Time, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
susan4508 said:
An even better bio of Russ Ford (and about 900+ other ballplayers) is at: bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=1758&...