Emil Ogden Yde (January 28, 1900 – December 4, 1968) was an American left-handed professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of four seasons in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1924–27) and Detroit Tigers in 1929. As a rookie in 1924, Yde led the National League in shutouts with four and in winning percentage (.842) with a Win–loss record of 16–3.
In 1925, Yde became the first pitcher ever to allow back-to-back home runs in a World Series when Goose Goslin and Joe Harris hit consecutive homers in the third inning of the fourth game of the series.[1]
He also was a good hitting pitcher in his brief major league career, posting a .233 batting average (74-for-317) with 46 runs, 1 home run and 28 RBI.
Yde was of Danish descent.[2] His father worked at Naval Station Great Lakes and later as a superintendent at a coal yard. Yde attended both the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[3] He served in the United States Navy during World War I.[4]
He moved to Leesburg, Florida during his playing career and eventually became a real estate dealer there.[4] In 1944, he ran for sheriff of Lake County, Florida but lost in the Democratic Party primary to Willis V. McCall.[5]
References
- ^ Snyder, John (2004). The World Series' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Championship Teams, Broken Dreams, and October Oddities. Potomac Books, Inc. ISBN 978-1-61234-052-4. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ Forr, James; Proctor, David (2009). Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography. McFarland. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-7864-4385-7. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ Louisa, Angelo J. (2015). The Pirates Unraveled: Pittsburgh's 1926 Season. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2254-5. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ a b Lee, Bill (2015). The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others. McFarland. p. 438. ISBN 978-1-4766-0930-0. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ Corsair, Gary (2004). The Groveland Four. p. 12. ISBN 1414072449. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
