Rube Waddell
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Search complete. 17 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Rube Waddell".
Oct 14, 2026
Mark ArmourGUEST
And so I expect he was really fast.
Mark ArmourGUEST
I mean, when he was young, like 22, and he's pitching in Birmingham, he was being described already at that point as being as fast as Rube Waddell, who was considered at that time maybe the fastest pitcher ever, even compared to Walter Johnson.
Mark ArmourGUEST
So he was being compared to the fastest pitchers ever when he was a kid, and he probably got faster.
Mark ArmourGUEST
And Dizzy Dean said, in some colorful version of what I'm about to say, that compared to Satchel Paige, I was throwing slop up there.
Dale CooperHOST
Okay.
Dave WeekleyHOST
And how about this? He's a Hall of Famer, and, uh, Trevor Hoffman is one of three Hall of Famers born on this date, including Eddie Mathews and Rube Waddell.
Dave WeekleyHOST
Can you tell that I was into the MLB Network info packet?
Dale CooperHOST
Rube Waddell, I like that.
Dave WeekleyHOST
Yes.
Dave WeekleyHOST
Yeah.
Dale CooperHOST
I like the Rube Waddell info.
Dave WeekleyHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Larry RitterHOST
on it.
Larry RitterHOST
What was Rube Waddell like back in the Western League in 1899? Oh, he was, you know, he was just like a big boy.
Larry RitterHOST
You
Sam CrawfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
could take
Sam CrawfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You don't know where he is.
Sam CrawfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He's out playing with the kids or gone fishing or something.
Sam CrawfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They'd have a game advertised for Sunday, you know, Rube Waddell's going to pitch.
Sam CrawfordSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Here comes Sunday in a pretty good, you know, little town, little bleachers and they're packed.
JoshuaHOST
I did hear this one interview, um, not interview.
JoshuaHOST
I read this really cool story about how, uh, [clears throat] I think it was, um, Christy Mathewson would go and watch Rube Waddell play.
JoshuaHOST
Not Rube Waddell.
JoshuaHOST
That's the white guy.
JoshuaHOST
Rube Foster.
JoshuaHOST
Rube Foster is the Black guy.
JoshuaHOST
Rube Waddell is the white guy that we think had autism.
JoshuaHOST
Uh, Google Rube Waddell.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He got a fastball through, 3-2.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Some of the other great strikeout pitchers in baseball history, Rube Waddell, Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he's beaten them all.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Here's the 3-2 delivery.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's a strike called, he got a fastball through, three and two.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Some of the other great strike out pitchers in baseball history, Rube Waddell, Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax, and he's beat them all.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And here's a three-two delivery.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Swing, a line shot, base hit to center field.
GeraldPANELIST
Isn't there hope for us?
Marc GoldHOST
As a pinch hitter versus Rube Waddell of the A's.
Marc GoldHOST
And after he pinch hit, he stayed in the game.
Marc GoldHOST
He went 0 for 3.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He got a fastball through, 3-2.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Some of the other great strikeout pitchers in baseball history, Rube Waddell, Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he's beaten them all.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Here's the 3-2 delivery.
Chuck Thompson and Bill O'DonnellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He tied American League record by striking out 300 or more batters in a season twice.
Chuck Thompson and Bill O'DonnellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He has fanned 200 or more batters in a season six consecutive years, which is only one shy of the American League mark, which is held by Rube Waddell and Walter Johnson, and it ties the National League mark, which is held by Sandy Koufax.
Chuck Thompson and Bill O'DonnellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Sam has pitched four one-hitters in his career, and the flame-throwing McDowell, tough any time, is going to be, we would think, particularly tough this afternoon in Cleveland because of the, well, the almost frigid temperatures.
Chuck Thompson and Bill O'DonnellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, when we arrived in Cleveland yesterday, uh, shortly after ten o'clock, about...
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He got a fastball through, 3-2.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Some of the other great strikeout pitchers in baseball history, Rube Waddell, Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he's beaten them all.
Ernie HarwellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Here's the 3-2 delivery.