Legacy
Walsh retired with 195 wins, 126 losses and 1736 strikeouts. His career 1.82 is the lowest major league ERA ever posted, but is unofficial since ERA was not an official statistic in the American League prior to 1913. Though he has the second lowest career WHIP in MLB history (about 1.00), it is the lowest ever for a major league pitcher with 10 or more seasons pitched.
Walsh was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946. In 1999, he was ranked number 82 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was nominated as a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.
Walsh died on May 26, 1959, nearly two weeks after his 78th birthday.
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