Edward William "Eddie" Kolb (July 20, 1880 – October 1, 1949) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher from Cincinnati, Ohio, who pitched one game for the 1899 Cleveland Spiders. The Spiders that season were a horrible team, compiling a historically low win/loss record of 20-134. To finish off the season, the team ended with a 35 game road trip, losing 40 of their last 41 games. It was on the last game of the schedule, on October 15 (the second game of a doubleheader), that the team allowed a clerk at a local tobacco shop to pitch a game in exchange for a box of cigars. In that game, he pitched a complete game, giving up 18 hits, and 19 runs, 9 of which were earned. He did, however, did get one hit in four at bats.
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Edward William Kolb 20 July 1880 Cincinnati, OH
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Died |
1 October 1949 (aged 69) Calgary, Alberta, CAN
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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