Special Memory or Event? Want to have some fun? Advertise your business? Dedicate this page Marv Goodwin Position: Pitcher Bats: Right • Throws: Right 5-11, 168lb (180cm, 76kg) Born: January 16, 1891 in Gordonsville, VA Died: October 21, 1925 in Houston, TX Buried: MapleWood Cemetery, Gordonsville, VA High School: Gordonsville HS (Gordonsville, VA) Debut: September 7, 1916 4,533rd in major league history) vs. NYY 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 SO, 1 BB, 0…
1925 – Marv Goodwin, a former pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals who joined the Cincinnati Reds at the end of the season, is killed in a plane he is piloting. At age 34, Goodwin is the first active player to die from injuries sustained in an airplane crash. Goodwin was one of the original spitballers who was “grandfathered.”
Two weeks after pitching his final game for the Reds, Army Reserve First Lieutenant pilot Marvin Goodwin’s plane goes into a tailspin and crashes near Houston’s Ellington Field. The 34 year-old right-hander, who appeared in four games for Cincinnati, three as a starter, and posted an 0-2 record, which included two complete games, will die in three days as the result of being severely injured, with two broken legs, a fractured skull, along with critical internal injuries.
1920 – The American League votes to allow pitchers who used the spitball in 1920 to continue using it as long as they are in the league. The National League will do the same. There will be 17 designated spitters in all, eight in the NL and nine in the AL. For the NL: Bill Doak, Phil Douglas, Dana Fillingim, Ray Fisher, Marvin Goodwin, Burleigh Grimes, Clarence Mitchell, and Dick Rudolph. For the AL: A.W. Ayers, Slim Caldwell, Stan Coveleski, Red Faber, Dutch Leonard, Jack Quinn, Allan Russell, Urban Shocker, and Allen Sothoron.
major leagues announce a rule change banning all “freak deliveries” by pitchers