Rube Waddell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1876
Place of Birth: Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 01-Apr-1914
Profession: association football player, baseball player, American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Rube Waddell
- George Edward "Rube" Waddell (October 13, 1876 – April 1, 1914) was an American southpaw pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB).
- In a career spanning 13 years, he played for the Louisville Colonels (1897, 1899), Pittsburgh Pirates (1900–01) and Chicago Orphans (1901) in the National League, and the Philadelphia Athletics (1902–07) and St.
- Louis Browns (1908–10) in the American League.
- Born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, Waddell was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946. Waddell was a remarkably dominant strikeout pitcher in an era when batters mostly slapped at the ball to get singles.
- He had an excellent fastball, a sharp-breaking curveball, a screwball, and superb control (his strikeout-to-walk ratio was almost 3-to-1).
- He led the major leagues in strikeouts for six consecutive years.
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