Rube Waddell - Highlights

Highlights

• Won Triple Crown for pitchers (1905: 27–10, 287, 1.48)
• 4-time 20-game winner (24, 21, 25, 27: 1902–05)
• Two ERA titles (1900, 1905), along with two second-place finishes in the category
• Six consecutive AL strikeout titles (1902–07), and five consecutive strikeout titles (1903–07) in the entire Major Leagues.
• Led his league eight times in strikeouts per nine innings (1900, 1902–1908; he finished second in 1901)
• Set league record for strikeouts in a game up to that time (16, 1908)
• Set record for strikeouts in a season for an AL lefty (349, 1904)
• On July 1, 1902, Waddell became the second pitcher to strike out three batters on nine pitches, in the third inning of a 2–0 win over the Baltimore Orioles.
• Collected 50 shutouts.