Eddie Plank

"Edward Stewart Plank (August 31, 1875 – February 24, 1926), nicknamed 'Gettysburg Eddie', was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He is the first left-handed pitcher to win 200 games and then 300 games, and now ranks third in all-time wins among left-handers with 326 career victories (eleventh all time) and first all-time in career shutouts by a left-handed pitcher with 66. Plank was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946. Plank made his major league debut on May 13, 1901, for the Philadelphia Athletics, a team he would play for until 1914. Over this time, he would be one of the most consistent pitchers in the game, winning over 20 games seven times and contributing to two World Series championships, one in 1911, the other in 1913 (He sat out the 1910 Series due to a sore arm)."
Wikipedia

"Eddie Plank fidgeted. On every pitch, Plank went through a seemingly endless ritual: Get the sign from his catcher, fix his cap just so, readjust his shirt and sleeve, hitch up his pants, ask for a new ball, rub it up, stare at a base runner if there was one, look back at his catcher, ask for a new sign—and start the process all over again. As if that wasn't enough, from the seventh inning on, he would begin to talk to himself and the ball out loud: "Nine to go, eight to go . . ." and so on until he had retired the last batter. Frustrated hitters would swing at anything just to have something to do. His fielders would grow antsy. Fans, not wanting to be late for supper, would stay away when he was pitching. Writers, fearful of missing deadlines, roasted him."
SABR

"Edward S. 'Gettysburg Eddie' Plank was born August 31, 1875, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in a small farmhouse to Mr. and Mrs. David Plank. Plank had three brothers, one of whom (Ira Plank) would play briefly in the major leagues with the Yankees. Eddie Plank attended Pennsylvania College, now called Gettysburg College, and had reportedly never played baseball before playing on the Pennsylvania College’s team as a pitcher for two years. Then he was signed by the Philadelphia Athletics (also known as the 'A’s,' now the Oakland Athletics). Plank was the first Gettysburg alumnus to become a professional baseball player."
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County

Eddie Plank: Gettysburg’s Legendary Lefty
"Though he was known as Gettysburg Eddie, his real name was Edward Stewart Plank. He was a hero to many, but not because he had fought and survived on Gettysburg’s battlefield. Gettysburg Eddie fought on a different battlefield. He held a mound of earth surrounded by a diamond-shaped field. He held it week after week, year after year, and he did it by hurling a baseball. Gettysburg Eddie was the first left-handed pitcher in baseball history to win 200 games and then the first to win 300 games. Even today, he has the third-most wins among left-handed pitchers—326—and ranks 11th among all pitchers. Plank was born on August 31, 1875, on his family’s farm north of Gettysburg in Straban Township. Like many young boys, he took up the game of baseball as a favorite summertime activity to play with his friends. He would practice his pitching by throwing a baseball against a hay stack propped up against the wall of the barn, all the time working for greater accuracy and speed with his pitches."
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