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  Stan Coveleski - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Coveleski, Stan (1889-1984), American baseball player, who won 20 or more games in five seasons during his 14-year career as a major league...
Coveleski signed his first professional contract with the minor league Lancaster Red Roses in 1909.
Stan Coveleski batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each...
encarta.msn.com /Stan_Coveleski.html   (177 words)

  
  Stan Coveleski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coveleski was known for throwing the spitball, and he was one of the 17 pitchers allowed to continue throwing the pitch when it was outlawed in 1920.
Cleveland traded Coveleski to the Washington Senators after a subpar 1924 season in which he posted a 4.04 ERA.
Coveleski was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969 and on June 10, 1976 into the National Polish-American Hall of Fame.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stan_Coveleski   (272 words)

  
 Stan Coveleskie | BaseballLibrary.com
Coveleskie always said it was the spitball that made him a major-league pitcher.
Despite the spitter's eccentricity, Coveleskie (as the name was spelled during his playing days) was a control pitcher who averaged one walk every 3.86 innings over fourteen years.
September 4, 1916: In Detroit, the Coveleski brothers appear together in the same game for the only time in their careers.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Coveleskie_Stan.stm   (746 words)

  
 Stan Coveleski - BR Bullpen
Coveleski was credited with three of the four victories over the Brooklyn Dodgers, yielding only two runs in the 27 innings he worked.
Born in the coal-mining town of Shamokin, PA, he was the younger brother of pitcher Harry Coveleski and one of four professional players in the family.
Coveleski retired as a player in 1928, after a 5-1 season with the Yankees, and settled in South Bend, IN.
www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Stan_Coveleski   (373 words)

  
 Stan Coveleski | The BASEBALL Page
Coveleski learned the spitter while in the minors in 1913-1915, earning a permanent spot in the big leagues in 1916 when the Indians bought his contract.
Stan claimed that Jacob was killed during the Spanish-American War, in 1898.
Coveleski stayed around the plate, enticing batters to swing at his first pitch rather than fall behind in the count.
www.thebaseballpage.com /players/covelst01.php   (712 words)

  
 1925 AL Mathewson Award
Coveleski was tough to hit, too; he also had better control, and a slightly better ERA.
Coveleski retired three years later; he too had a brilliant career, though nowhere near as good as Johnson.
While Johnson and Coveleski were finishing their careers, Ted Lyons was just beginning his; this was his first big season.
venus.lunarpages.com /~double2/History/400Pages/alcy1925.html   (350 words)

  
 HickokSports.com - Biography - Stan Coveleski
Because he signed with the Philadelphia Athletics, who had an outstanding pitching staff, Coveleski was trapped in the minors for a number of seasons, though he did pitch briefly for Philadelphia in 1912.
Coveleski developed a spitball, which was then legal, while pitching in the Pacific Coast League in 1915.
Coveleski went 14-11 in 1926 and was released by the Senators early in 1927.
www.hickoksports.com /biograph/covlskis.shtml   (276 words)

  
 Stan Coveleski Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Stan Coveleski was born on Saturday, July 13, 1889, in Shamokin, Pennsylvania.
Coveleski was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 10, 1912, with the Philadelphia Athletics.
His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Stan Coveleski baseball stats page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=covelst01   (279 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Spitballing Coveleski Buoys Indians
Along with the Nationals' Allan Russell (currently 3-0), Coveleski had been among a group of nine American Leaguers (and eight National Leaguers) officially listed as spitball pitchers in 1920, when the pitch was otherwise officially outlawed, and allowed to use the wet one for the rest of their careers.
They ran into another of these snags yesterday in the person of the veteran spitballer, [future Hall of Famer] Stan Coveleski (season 15-16, 4.04 ERA), and his little playmates from Cleveland, being unable to hit the Big Pole at all and dropping their second battle of the series to the Indians -- 5 to 1.
"Coveleski appeared to have just the kind of offerings which the Nats did not like, and all but two of the eight local hits scored were registered in different frames when they did no good.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A61325-2004Aug12?language=printer   (1244 words)

  
 Harry Coveleski | BaseballLibrary.com
Thrust into the midst of a furious pennant race when he was called up by the Phillies in late September 1908, Coveleski defeated the contending Giants three times in five days, enabling the Cubs to win the flag.
Coveleski earned a $50 bonus and the nickname "The Giant Killer." He slumped in 1909, was traded, and returned to the minors.
Coveleski and three brothers (including Hall of Famer Stanley) came out of the Pennsylvania coal fields to play pro ball.
baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Coveleski_Harry.stm   (490 words)

  
 1920 AL Mathewson Award
BB Coveleski has the best overall numbers, in terms of wins, innings, ERA, and strikeouts.
Coveleski, of course, is in the Hall Of Fame.
Bagby must have worn his arm out, because he never had another good season, and was out of the league in three years.
venus.lunarpages.com /~double2/History/400Pages/alcy1920.html   (277 words)

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