Eppa Rixey
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Eppa Rixey Jr. (May 3, 1891 – February 28, 1963) was an American baseball player who played 21 seasons for the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds in Major League Baseball from 1912 to 1933 as a left-handed pitcher. Rixey was best known as the National League's leader in career victories for a left-hander with 266 wins until Warren Spahn surpassed his total in 1959.[citation needed]
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Biography
In November 1915, Rixey accepted a position as a chemist at the Armenius pyrite mines in Mineral, Louisa County. [1]
References
- ↑ Web. Twirler Rixey a Chemist, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, November 24, 1915, retrieved November 24, 2022. Print. November 24, 1915 page 1.