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He Spe Nta to Tal of Twen Ty-Fo Ur Years Ino Rganized Baseball and Died on February 24, 1 947. Rusie, Born May 30, 1 87 1 He spent a total of twenty-fo ur years in organized to pitch. Regardless of how it ended, Rusie's was the baseball and died on February 24, 1947. fi rst successful player holdout in baseball history. Rusie, born May 30, 1871, in Mooresville, Indiana, was In 1899 Rusie held out again, but this time he was unsuc­ nicknamed the Hoosier Th underbolt both fo r his fa stball cessful. He wa out of baseball fo r two years, during which and his quick temper. The tall, two-h undred-pound time he reportedly drank heavily. In 1901 the Giants traded right-hander tJ1rew the ball so hard tJ1at his catcher, Buckley, him to Cincinnati fo r Christy Mathewson-a deal that is lined his glove with lead to lessen the impact. After play­ considered one of the worst trades in baseball history. ing in Indianapolis in 1889, Rusie pitched for the ew Ru ie pitched in only three games fo r the Red Stockings Yo rk Giants beginning in 1890. In 1893 the pitching mound in 1901 and then retired from the game. He returned to was moved back from fifty fe et to its present distance of Indiana and worked in a pulp and paper mill until moving sixty fe et and ix inches from home plate because of the to Seattle to take a steamfitter'sjob in 1911. From 1921 to 1929 Rusie worked as the superinten­ dent of the Giants' Polo Grounds in New Yo rk. He then returned to Seattle where he died on December 6, 1942. Rusie's life time win-loss record was 248-171, with a 3.07 earned-run average. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977 and into the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979. In 1914 Indianapolis finally had a winning major-league team. The Federal League had been fo rmed to compete with the American and ational Leagues. The fo urth major-league team to play in Indianapoli , also called the Hoosiers, LEFT TO RIGHT: Jerry Denny and Jim Whitney. came in fir t place in the Federal League that year. The power of the Cyclone and the Thunderbolt-Cleveland's team won eigh ty-eight games and lost sixty-five, a .575 Cy Yo ung and New Yo rk's Rusie. Rusie led the league in percentage. In 1915, however, the team moved to New strikeouts five times and led or tied fo r most shutouts five Jersey and was renamed the Newark Peppers, marking times. In eight seasons he won twenty or more game , the only time that a pennant-winning team would relocate winning more tJ1an lhirly games a year five seasons in a row. to another city the fo llowing year. The Federal League As good as he was, he was also very wild and led the league ceased to exist after the 1915 season. in walks from 1890 to 1894. He once knocked out a In addition to these major-league teams, Indianapolis batter fo r a day with a wild pitch. had fo ur Negro League teams between 1920 and 1950. In 1895 Ru ie won twenty-three games for the Giants First were the ABCs of the 1920s and early 1930s playing and led the league in strikeouts and sh utouts. But at in the egro National League and later in the Negro the end of the season his controversial manager, Andrew Southern League, fo llowed by another team using the Freedman, deducted $200 from his paycheck (which same name from 1938 to 1940 in the Negro American was then six dollars an inning) fo r not having tried League. In 1937 the Indianapolis Athletics played in the hard enough. To protest, Rusie sat out the entire next Negro American League. Also in that league, the Clowns season. Gian t fa ns supported Rusie, wi th Wall Street represented both Indianapolis and Cincinnati in 1944 and brokers calling fo r a boycott of Giants games. One then played strictly fo r Indianapolis from 1946 to 1950. source says that eventually, to avoid a court test of base­ Today Indianapolis is home to the Indians, the ball contract , other club owners put up $3,000 to ge t Triple-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. The team Rusie back in the game. Another source states that after plays in the down town stadium known a Victory Field, the Giants dropped to sixth place they met Rusie's terms which opened in 1996. and paid him $5,000 fo r the fo llowing season. Opposing Barbara Qu igley is visual collections archivisl fo r the indiana players wanted to start a fu nd to pay him $5,000 not Historical Society 's Wi lliam He nry Smith Memorial Library. TRACES Summrr 200 ' 47 .
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