Rube Foster Essentials Positions: Bats: R Throws: R Weight: 200 Born: Year: 1879 in Calvert, TX USA Died: 12 9 1930 in Kankakee, IL USA Debut: Last Game: Hall of Fame: Inducted as a Manager in 1981 by Veterans Full Name: Andrew Bishop Foster
Rube Foster Essentials Positions: Bats: R Throws: R 67 Weight: 170 Born: 1 5, 1888 in Lehigh, OK USA Died: 3 1 1976 in Bokoshe, OK USA Debut: 4/10/1913 Last Game: 9/29/1917 Full Name: George Foster
On March 11, 1981, the Veterans Committee elects slugger Johnny Mize and Negro Leagues pioneer Rube Foster to the Hall of Fame. Mize totaled 359 home runs and batted .312 during a 15-year major league career, while Foster served as a pitcher, manager, and executive in the Negro Leagues in the first quarter of the 20th…
On December 9, 1930, Andrew “Rube” Foster, the founder of the Negro National League, dies at the age of 52. The founder of the Negro National League, he excelled as a player, manager, and executive and will win election to the Hall of Fame in 1981…
Negro National League in a meeting held at the YMCA in Kansas City
meeting in Kansas City results in the birth of the Negro National League
1916 – Tris Speaker has three hits against lefty Babe Ruth to finally drive him from the mound in the 8th inning. Reliever Rube Foster wild pitches home a run and Braggo Roth’s second double gives Cleveland a 5 – 3 lead. The Tribe wins it, 5 – 4, with Ruth the loser. Ruth is 2 for 4 with a two-run single.
On June 21, 1916 Rube Foster of the Red Sox no-hits the Yankees 2 – 0, for the first no-hitter in Fenway Park, beating Bob Shawkey, 2 – 0. Harry Hooper leads the offense with three hits. Red Sox president Joseph Lannin hands Rube a $100 bonus and each of his Sox teammates receive a…
1916 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox Pitching Staff. Rube Foster, Carl Mays, Ernie Shore, Babe Ruth, and Dutch Leonard. They were a combined 89-54 and Babe Ruth lead the way with 23 wins and a 1.75 ERA.
1915 – The Phillies get four runs early off Boston Red Sox pitcher Rube Foster in Game 5 of the World Series. The Red Sox break a tie in the 9th inning for the third time in the Series, as Harry Hooper hits his second home run of the game off reliever Eppa Rixey. Boston wins, 5 – 4, to take the Series in five games.