Arthur Neukom Nehf (July 31, 1892 - December 18, 1960) was a mostly starting pitcher in Major League Baseball in the 1910s and 20s. He played for the Boston Braves (1915-1919), New York Giants (1919-1926), Cincinnati Reds (1926-1927), and the Chicago Cubs (1927-1929). He was left-handed, and only 5 foot, 9 inches and 176 pounds when he made his debut in 1915. July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining, as the final day of July. ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... In baseball or softball, a starting pitcher, often abbreviated as starter, is the pitcher who pitches the first pitch to the first batter of a game. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in North America. ... Two major American professional sports teams have existed under the name Boston Braves, both of which still exist today but are no longer located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... San Francisco Giants National League AAA Fresno Grizzlies AA Norwich Navigators A San Jose Giants Augusta GreenJackets Salem-Keizer Volcanoes R Scottsdale Giants The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California. ... Cincinnati Reds National League AAA Louisville Bats AA Chattanooga Lookouts A Sarasota Reds Dayton Dragons R Billings Mustangs GCL Reds The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. ... Chicago Cubs National League AAA Iowa Cubs AA West Tenn Diamond Jaxx A Daytona Cubs Peoria Chiefs Boise Hawks R Mesa Cubs The Chicago Cubs are a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago. ... Enlarge to view legend Right feet of three siblings The foot is a biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion. ... Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch An inch is an Imperial unit of length. ... Officially the pound is the name for at least three different units of mass: The pound (avoirdupois). ...

Career Overview

Nehf was born in Terre Haute, Indiana and attended the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute. He was notable for accumulating 184 career wins and a 3.20 ERA in his 15-year career. Terre Haute is a city located in Vigo County, Indiana. ... Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (or RHIT) is a private non-sectarian college which specializes in teaching engineering, science, and mathematics. ... In baseball, a pitcher is credited with a win (or W) when, in a game won by his team, he is the teams pitcher at the time that his team takes a lead that it does not relinquish for the remainder of the game. ... In baseball statistics, earned run average (denoted by ERA) is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. ...

Nehf came up with the Braves in 1915, and frequented the leaderboards throughout his time with them; he lead the league in complete games with 28 in 1918, and showed up in the top 10 in wins, three times, including the year that he was traded to the Giants mid-season. In 1917, Nehf had what is generally thought of as his best season with the Braves, when he went 17-8 with a 2.16 ERA, pitching very consistently, and completing 17 of his 23 starts, with 5 shutouts, while also finishing 7 games on the year. He also had his career-high in strike outs that year with 101, the only time he had more than 100 strike outs. See also: 1914 in sports, 1916 in sports and the list of years in sports. Football (Australian Rules) Victorian Football League - Carlton wins the 19th VFL Premiership (Carlton 11. ... In baseball, a complete game (denoted by CG) is the act of a pitcher pitching an entire game himself, without the benefit of a relief pitcher. ... See also: 1917 in sports, 1919 in sports and the list of years in sports. Football (Australian Rules) Victorian Football League - South Melbourne wins the 22nd VFL Premiership (South Melbourne 9. ... See also: 1916 in sports, 1918 in sports and the list of years in sports. Football (Australian Rules) Victorian Football League - Collingwood wins the 21st VFL Premiership (Collingwood 9. ... In baseball, a shutout refers to a game in which one team wins without allowing the opposing team to score any runs. ... In baseball, a strikeout or strike out (denoted by K or SO) occurs when the batter receives three strikes during his time at bat. ...

Nehf was traded to the Giants for four players and cash on August 15, 1919. He won a career-high 21 games in 1920, his first full year with the Giants. Playing with the Giants in the early 20's had Nehf playing in a number of World Series, including 1921, 1922, 1923 and 1924. In 1924, he beat Walter Johnson in 12 innings in the WS opener, but the Giants lost the series to the Washington Senators that year. The Giants won in '21 and '22 with the help of Nehf, who had an all-time postseason record of 4-4 with an ERA of 2.16 in 12 games, and 9 starts. 6 of his starts were complete games. He had 28 strike outs all-time in the World Series. Nehf also participated in the 1929 World Series with the Cubs in his last year, and didn't pitch well as the Cubs lost the series to the Philadelphia Athletics. The dollar is the name of the official currency in several countries, dependencies and other regions (see list below), including the US dollar, the worlds most widely circulated currency (see list below). ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... See also: 1918 in sports, other events of 1919, 1920 in sports and the list of years in sports. Baseball The Black Sox scandal -- Seven members of the Chicago White Sox take bribes to throw the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds The Florida State League is founded with teams... See also: 1919 in sports, 1921 in sports and the list of years in sports. Baseball January 3 - Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan, beginning The curse of the Bambino. This was the prelude... In baseball, the World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in North America, played in October after the end of the regular season between the pennant winner of the American League and the pennant winner of the National League. ... The New York Giants beat the New York Yankees in 8 games. ... The New York Giants beat the New York Yankees in 5 games. ... The New York Yankees beat the New York Giants in 6 games. ... The Washington Senators beat the New York Giants in 7 games. ... Walter Johnson on a 1909-1911 American Tobacco Company baseball card (White Borders (T206)). Walter Perry Johnson (November 6, 1887-December 10, 1946), American professional baseball pitcher. ... The Washington Senators can refer to: The Washington Senators (officially named the Washington Nationals during the 1905–1956 seasons), an American League baseball team based in Washington, D.C. from 1901 to 1960. ... The Philadelphia Athletics beat the Chicago Cubs in 5 games. ... The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. ...

Nehf won 107 games with the Giants, while he lost only 60. After many solid, and sometimes great, seasons with the Giants and then being traded to Cincinnati, and then to Chicago, most thought Nehf's career was virtually over. But he managed to put up one more very good year in 1928 with the Cubs. He went 13-7 with a still very low, 2.65 ERA. That year, he was also involved in a very strange and controversial play against his former team, the Giants. With the Giants in a tight pennant race against the St. Louis Cardinals, their loss in the 1st game of a doubleheader on September 27, 1928, was made all the more controversial. New York's Shanty Hogan hit a ball back to Nehf who threw to third base to get the runner, but the runner Andy Reese was off with the crack of the bat and was already at home plate, knocking over catcher Gabby Hartnett. Hartnett grabbed the runner to keep from falling, and as Hartnett held him, Reese was tagged out by the Cubs third basemen. The Giants bench erupted, but umpire Bill Klem ruled Reese out. The subsequent protest was turned down despite clear pictures showing Reese being held back. The Giants went on to lose the pennant to the Cards by 2 games. Coincidentally, the Cubs were 2 games behind that. See also: 1927 in sports, other events of 1928, 1929 in sports and the list of years in sports. Cricket 23 June-26 June, London - West Indies play their first Test match, against England. ... St. ... Doubleheader is the term used to describe two baseball games played between the same two teams on the same day. ... September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The position of the third baseman A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in the sport of baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base, the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in a counterclockwise succession in order to score a run. ... Home plate is the final base in baseball and related games that a player must touch to score. ... The position of the catcher Catcher is a position played in baseball. ... Charles Leo Gabby Hartnett (December 20, 1900 - December 20, 1972) was an American Major League Baseball catcher and manager who played nearly his entire career with the Chicago Cubs. ... Home plate umpire Gary Darling signals that the last pitch was a strike In baseball, the umpire is the person charged with officiating the game, including beginning and ending the game, enforcing the rules of the game and the grounds, making judgment calls on plays, and meting out discipline. ... William J. Klem (February 22, 1874 _ September 1, 1951), known as the father of baseball umpires, was a National League umpire in Major League Baseball from 1905 to 1941. ...

Some years, he pitched as a starter only, and some as a relief pitcher and a starter, but he was always solid in both rolls, earning a reputation around the Majors as an always-consistent pitcher, and never a risk to put stock in. A relief pitcher warms up in the bullpen as the game goes on A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness or fatigue. ...

Besides finishing with a 184-120 record and a 3.20 ERA in 451 games, he had 182 complete games and 28 shutouts (30 if you count postseason) in 319 starts. He had 13 career saves and also picked up a total of 844 strike outs in 2707 and 2/3 innings pitched. To save in a sport means to stop a goal or to maintain the lead. ... In baseball, innings pitched (IP) are the number of innings a pitcher has completed, measured by the number of batters and baserunners that are put out while the pitcher is in the game. ...

When he was 68, Nehf died in his home in Phoenix, Arizona. The cause was cancer. Phoenix is surrounded by twenty two towns and cities that have grown so closely together that it is almost impossible to distinguish one from another in this satellite image. ... When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ...

Batting

Nehf had a .210 career batting average with 8 home runs and 76 RBIs. Of his 8 HR's, 2 came in one game in 1924. It was his only multiple home run season. He had 5. Batting average is a statistic in both baseball and cricket measuring the performance of baseball hitters and cricket batsmen, respectively. ... In baseball, a home run is a base hit in which the batter is able to circle all the bases, ending at home plate and scoring a run, with no errors on the play that result in the batter achieving extra bases. ... In baseball statistics, a run batted in (RBI) is given to a batter for each run scored as the result of a batters plate appearance. ... See also: 1923 in sports, 1925 in sports and the list of years in sports. Football (American) Cleveland Bulldogs win National Football League title Football (Australian Rules) Victorian Football League Essendon wins the 28th VFL Premiership (under the finals system used, no grand final was played) Brownlow Medal awarded for...

Highlights

• Top 5 in the National League in ERA, twice (1922, 28), and in the top 10 one more time (1917)
• Top 10 in wins, six times (1917, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
• Top 10 in winning percentage, six times (1917, 19, 20, 21, 24, 28)
• Led the league in complete games in 1918 (28), and made the top 10, four more times (1919, 20, 21, 22)
• Top 10 in strike outs, twice (1918, 24), and top 10 in strikeouts per nine innings, twice (1924, 25)