Howard Ehmke
Howard Jonathan Ehmke (April 24, 1894 – March 17, 1959) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He is best known for being the surprise starter who won Game 1 of the 1929 World Series for the Philadelphia Athletics at the age of 35. After retirement from baseball, he started his own company that began making the first tarpaulins to cover baseball diamonds during rain.
Read more about Howard Ehmke: Playing Overview, Buffalo Blues and Detroit Tigers: 1915-1922, Boston Red Sox: 1923-1926, Philadelphia Athletics: 1926-1930, The Howard Ehmke Company
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“Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)