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FABER, Urban "Red"
FABER, Urban "Red" (Cascade, IA, Sept. 6, 1888--Chicago, IL, Sept. 15, 1976). Baseball player. Faber, the last legal spitball pitcher, was named to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1964. Faber started his career in professional baseball playing in the Three I League before moving to the Western League.
Faber joined the Chicago White Sox in 1914 and remained with the team his entire career, winning 254 games before retiring in 1933. He led the league in 1920 and 1921 in earned run average with 2.37 runs per game in the former and 2.80 runs in the latter year. He played three hundred innings and led the league by pitching fifty games. In 1964 LORAS COLLEGE, his alma mater, named its baseball field in his honor.
