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Rube Waddell
	George Edward Waddell


	Born: October 13, 1876 in Bradford, PA
	Died: April 1, 1914 - 37 years old
	Bats: R	Throws: L	Ht: 6'1"	Wt: 196

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Notes:
- Inducted into the Hall of Fame as a Player in 1946
- Signed by the Louisville Colonels as a Free Agent in 1897

Comparison

Starting Pitchers				All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time	Hall of Famers		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WAR	HoF	DQ	Mil	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Cy Young	1890 - 1911	SP	168.5	Pl			-1.5	-0.3	170.3	0.0
2	Kid Nichols	1890 - 1906	SP	116.4	Pl			0.2	-0.4	116.6	-0.0
3	Christy Mathewson	1900 - 1916	SP	101.8	Pl		WW1	6.8	-0.2	95.3	0.1
4	Eddie Plank	1901 - 1917	SP	89.8	Pl			3.4	-0.1	86.5	-0.1
5	Ed Walsh	1904 - 1917	SP	65.5	Pl			2.3	-0.1	63.2	-0.1
6	Vic Willis	1898 - 1910	SP	63.5	Pl			-3.5	-0.2	67.1	-0.0
7	Clark Griffith	1891 - 1914	SP	61.9	Pl			4.6	-0.5	57.7	-0.0
8	Rube Waddell	1897 - 1910	SP	58.5	Pl			-2.4	-0.1	61.0	-0.0
9	Eddie Cicotte	1905 - 1920	SP	58.0		BANg		1.2	-0.1	56.9	-0.0
10	Joe McGinnity	1899 - 1908	SP	57.7	Pl			-2.6	-0.0	60.4	0.1
11	Jack Powell	1897 - 1912	SP	56.8				0.9	-0.1	56.0	-0.0
12	Mordecai Brown	1903 - 1916	SP	56.3	Pl			1.2	0.1	55.1	0.1
13	Al Orth	1895 - 1909	SP	52.7				9.5	-1.0	44.1	-0.2
14	Chief Bender	1903 - 1925	SP	49.5	Pl			5.6	-0.1	44.0	-0.1
15	Jesse Tannehill	1894 - 1911	SP	48.7				7.7	-0.6	41.1	-0.5
16	Doc White	1901 - 1913	SP	48.5				6.4	-1.0	42.6	-0.5
17	George Mullin	1902 - 1915	SP	47.7				13.4	-0.1	34.3	-0.0
18	Noodles Hahn	1899 - 1906	SP	44.6				-1.3	-0.0	45.9	0.0
19	Addie Joss	1902 - 1910	SP	43.7	Pl			-2.1	-0.1	45.9	-0.0
20	Bill Donovan	1898 - 1918	SP	42.8				1.2	-0.6	41.9	-0.3
21	Jack Chesbro	1899 - 1909	SP	41.4	Pl			0.3	-0.1	41.2	-0.0
22	Sam Leever	1898 - 1910	SP	41.3				-0.4	0.0	41.8	0.1
23	Bill Dinneen	1898 - 1909	SP	40.6				-0.3	-0.2	41.1	-0.0
24	Kid Gleason	1888 - 1912	SP	40.5				12.1	-1.8	31.5	1.4
25	Ed Reulbach	1905 - 1917	SP	36.5				-2.4	-0.1	39.0	0.0
26	Brickyard Kennedy	1892 - 1903	SP	35.1				3.0	-0.0	32.2	0.0
27	Jack Taylor	1898 - 1907	SP	34.4				4.2	0.0	30.2	0.1
28	Deacon Phillippe	1899 - 1911	SP	34.2				-0.2	-0.0	34.4	0.1
29	Harry Howell	1898 - 1910	SP	33.9				3.2	-1.0	31.8	0.1
30	Bob Ewing	1902 - 1912	SP	31.2				0.7	-0.1	30.5	0.0
31	Win Mercer	1894 - 1902	SP	28.9				7.6	-2.3	23.9	0.2
32	Hooks Wiltse	1904 - 1915	SP	28.7				2.5	-0.0	26.3	0.0
33	Jake Weimer	1903 - 1909	SP	27.0				1.0	0.0	26.0	0.1
34	Ed Killian	1903 - 1910	SP	26.8				1.5	0.1	25.1	-0.1
35	Earl Moore	1901 - 1914	SP	26.1				-4.4	-0.0	30.5	0.0
36	Nixey Callahan	1894 - 1913	SP	26.0				11.9	-4.1	15.8	-2.4
37	Red Ames	1903 - 1919	SP	23.9				-4.1	-0.1	28.1	0.0
38	Frank Kitson	1898 - 1907	SP	23.6				3.9	-0.2	19.8	-0.1
39	Orval Overall	1905 - 1913	SP	23.3				0.7	0.0	22.6	0.0
40	Red Donahue	1893 - 1906	SP	22.9				-7.0	-0.1	30.0	0.0
41	Frank Smith	1904 - 1915	SP	22.5				4.7	-0.0	17.7	-0.0
42	Barney Pelty	1903 - 1912	SP	21.8				-2.1	-0.1	24.0	-0.0
43	Lefty Leifield	1905 - 1920	SP	21.5				0.1	-0.0	21.4	0.1
44	Cy Falkenberg	1903 - 1917	SP	20.8				-2.4	0.0	23.1	-0.0
45	Tully Sparks	1897 - 1910	SP	20.7				-4.6	0.0	25.3	0.1
46	Ed Siever	1901 - 1908	SP	18.8				-2.4	-0.0	21.2	-0.0
47	Frank Foreman	1884 - 1902	SP	17.1				1.8	-0.2	15.4	-0.1
48	Tom Hughes	1900 - 1913	SP	16.8				1.8	-0.1	15.0	-0.1
49	Howie Camnitz	1904 - 1915	SP	15.1				-3.6	0.0	18.7	0.1
50	Jay Hughes	1898 - 1902	SP	15.0				1.4	-0.2	13.7	-0.1
51	Roy Patterson	1901 - 1907	SP	14.7				-1.7	-0.0	16.5	0.0
52	Bill Bernhard	1899 - 1907	SP	14.6				-1.4	-0.0	16.1	0.0
53	Chick Fraser	1896 - 1909	SP	14.4				-2.5	-0.0	17.0	0.0
54	Togie Pittinger	1900 - 1907	SP	14.2				-5.9	0.0	20.0	0.0
55	Ned Garvin	1896 - 1904	SP	14.1				-4.1	0.0	18.2	0.1
56	Dummy Taylor	1900 - 1908	SP	13.9				-2.5	0.0	16.4	0.1
57	Willie Sudhoff	1897 - 1906	SP	13.6				-0.6	-0.3	14.4	-0.1
58	Bill Duggleby	1898 - 1907	SP	13.4				-1.3	0.0	14.7	0.1
59	Doc Scanlan	1903 - 1911	SP	13.0				0.9	0.0	12.2	0.0
60	Carl Lundgren	1902 - 1909	SP	12.8				-0.9	0.0	13.8	0.1
61	Buster Brown	1905 - 1913	SP	12.2				0.2	-0.0	12.1	0.1
62	Fred Glade	1902 - 1908	SP	12.0				-0.6	-0.0	12.6	-0.0
63	Bob Rhoads	1902 - 1909	SP	11.7				0.1	-0.1	11.5	-0.1
64	George Winter	1901 - 1908	SP	11.6				-1.0	-0.0	12.6	-0.0
65	Bob Wicker	1901 - 1906	SP	10.5				0.5	-0.1	9.9	-0.0
66	Case Patten	1901 - 1908	SP	10.4				-3.9	-0.1	14.3	-0.0
67	Cy Morgan	1903 - 1913	SP	10.4				-3.4	-0.0	13.8	-0.0
68	Wiley Piatt	1898 - 1903	SP	10.3				1.2	0.0	9.1	0.0
69	Nick Altrock	1898 - 1933	SP	10.2				0.5	-0.1	9.7	-0.0
70	Charlie Smith	1902 - 1914	SP	9.6				-1.2	-0.0	10.8	-0.0
71	Johnny Lush	1904 - 1910	SP	9.5				5.4	-2.3	5.8	-0.6
72	Frank Corridon	1904 - 1910	SP	9.0				-0.1	0.0	9.1	0.0
73	Harry McIntire	1905 - 1913	SP	8.8				2.9	-0.2	6.1	-0.0
74	Jack Cronin	1895 - 1904	SP	8.3				-0.8	0.1	9.0	-0.0
75	Jack Pfiester	1903 - 1911	SP	8.3				-2.8	0.0	11.1	0.1
76	Andy Coakley	1902 - 1911	SP	8.3				-2.6	-0.0	10.9	0.0
77	Irv Young	1905 - 1911	SP	8.3				-2.9	-0.0	11.2	0.0
78	Doc Newton	1900 - 1909	SP	8.2				-1.0	-0.0	9.3	-0.0
79	Jock Menefee	1892 - 1903	SP	8.2				0.1	-0.5	8.2	-0.4
80	Otto Hess	1902 - 1915	SP	7.9			Sp-Am	1.0	-0.6	7.1	-0.3
81	Jack Dunn	1897 - 1904	SP	7.6				1.2	-0.7	7.9	0.8
82	Roscoe Miller	1901 - 1904	SP	7.1				-1.3	0.0	8.5	0.0
83	Mike O'Neill	1901 - 1907	SP	7.0				2.8	-0.2	4.2	-0.2
84	Bugs Raymond	1904 - 1911	SP	7.0				-0.3	0.0	7.3	0.0
85	Jimmy Dygert	1905 - 1910	SP	6.8				-1.4	-0.0	8.2	-0.0
86	Frank Owen	1901 - 1909	SP	6.6				-0.1	-0.1	6.7	-0.0
87	Fred Klobedanz	1896 - 1902	SP	6.5				1.4	-0.1	5.2	-0.0
88	Buttons Briggs	1896 - 1905	SP	5.8				-1.9	0.0	7.7	0.0
89	Patsy Flaherty	1899 - 1911	SP	5.7			WW1	1.4	-0.5	4.7	-0.1
90	Oscar Jones	1903 - 1905	SP	5.4				0.2	0.1	5.2	0.0
91	Ed Poole	1900 - 1904	SP	5.2				-1.1	-0.1	6.2	-0.1
92	Tom Walker	1902 - 1905	SP	4.9				-0.8	0.0	5.7	0.0
93	Highball Wilson	1899 - 1904	SP	4.7				0.4	-0.0	4.3	-0.0
94	Jack Harper	1899 - 1906	SP	4.4				-0.1	0.0	4.6	0.1
95	Bill Phillips	1890 - 1903	SP	4.4				0.9	-0.2	3.6	-0.1
96	Doc Reisling	1904 - 1910	SP	4.0				0.4	-0.0	3.6	-0.0
97	Charlie Chech	1905 - 1909	SP	3.9				-0.2	-0.0	4.1	0.0
98	Bill Hogg	1905 - 1908	SP	3.8				-1.6	0.0	5.4	-0.0
99	Charlie Case	1901 - 1906	SP	3.5				-0.3	0.0	3.8	0.0
100	Elmer Stricklett	1904 - 1907	SP	3.5				0.3	-0.0	3.2	0.0

	Rube Waddell	1897 - 1910	SP	58.5	Pl			-2.4	-0.1	61.0	-0.0

WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com