Ed Reulbach

Edward Marvin "Big Ed" Reulbach (December 1, 1882 – July 17, 1961) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He helped the Chicago Cubs win the 1907 and 1908 World Series.

Career
Reulbach played college baseball at the University of Notre Dame in 1903 and 1904. He played for the University of Vermont in 1905, accumulating a 4–0 record before signing a contract with the Chicago Cubs in May.

Reulbach won at least 17 games in every season from 1905 to 1909. In the 1906 World Series (ultimately won in six games by the Chicago White Sox), Reulbach shone in Game 2 at South Side Park, giving up only one hit, a seventh-inning single to Jiggs Donahue. This rare World Series low-hit game was matched by fellow Cubs pitcher Claude Passeau in 1945 when he threw just the second one-hitter in Series history, surpassed by Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.

Reulbach helped the Cubs win the 1907 World Series. His best year was 1908, when he won 24 games for the World Series champion Cubs, their last Series championship until they won it again in 2016. Reulbach pitched two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers on September 26, 1908. No other pitcher has ever accomplished this feat in the major leagues.

Reulbach played for the Cubs until 1913. He then had short stints with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Newark Pepper, and Boston Braves before retiring from baseball in 1917. He finished his MLB career with a 182–106 win–loss record, a 2.28 earned run average, a 123 ERA+, and 1,137 strikeouts in 2,632.1 innings pitched.

Reulbach died in 1961 on the same day (July 17) as Ty Cobb and was buried in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair. Reulbach was the last surviving Chicago Cub to have played in the 1907 and 1908 World Series.

Reulbach was a Roman Catholic and is buried in the Immaculate Conception Cemetery, a Catholic cemetery in Essex County, New Jersey.