Arley Wilbur Cooper (February 24, 1892 - August 7, 1973) was a Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher, who is one of the Top 100 winning pitchers of all time as of 2005. He was born in Bearsville, West Virginia. February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... MLB logo Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ... 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. ... In Major League Baseball, win, generally refers to a pitcher leaving his game with a lead, not there, when he began pitching, and the team holding this lead. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

Cooper spent the majority of his 15-year career with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1912-1924). The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...

He was 216-178 all-time with a 2.89 ERA in 517 games, 408 of them starts. He struck out 1252 in 3480 innings pitched. He is #70 on the all-time innings pitched leaderboard and is #78 on the all-time win leaderboard. In baseball statistics, earned run average (denoted by ERA) is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. ... In baseball, a strikeout or strike out (denoted by K or SO) occurs when the batter receives three strikes during his time at bat. ... 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. ... 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. ...

He died of heart attack at age 81 in Encino, California. A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream. ... Encino is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles, California located in the San Fernando Valley. ...