Red Faber Baseball player

Urban Clarence "Red" Faber (September 6, 1888 – September 25, 1976) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1914 through 1933, playing his entire career for the Chicago White Sox. He was a member of the 1919 team but was not involved in the Black Sox scandal because he missed the World Series due to injury and illness.Faber won 254 games over his 20-year career, a total which ranked 17th-highest in history upon his retirement. At the time of his retirement, he was the last legal spitballer in the American League; another legal spitballer, Burleigh Grimes, would later be traded to the AL and appear in 10 games for the Yankees in 1934. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964.

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Red Faber
Birth dateSeptember 06, 1888
Date of deathSeptember 25, 1976
Place of death
Chicago

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Baseball player

Career startApril 17, 1914
Career endSeptember 20, 1933
batting sideSwitch
former teams
Chicago White Sox
position
Pitcher
teams
Chicago White Sox
throwing sideRight

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