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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“We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)