Elected by Veterans Committee in 1964 Image provided by Dick Perez
TIMOTHY J. KEEFE
1880-1893
RIGHTHANDER WHO WON 346 GAMES
FOR TROY, METS, GIANTS AND PHILS
IN ONLY 14 SEASONS.
HIS RECORD STREAK OF 19 STRAIGHT TRIUMPHS
PACED GIANTS TO FLAG IN 1888.
ONE OF FIRST PITCHERS
TO USE A CHANGE OF PACE DELIVERY.
Winner of 342 games and the loser of 225 games, all in just 14 seasons. That’s a lot of pitching. It’s interesting, to me, that the teams he played for are listed as the Mets and Phils, rather than the Metropolitans and the Phillies. Unlike the Hall of Fame Plagues of later years that are jammed with player information, the earlier plaque designers must have been directed to be as brief and concise as possible, maybe to make the plagues as legible as the design process allowed.
In 1883 Keefe started and finished 68 games, winning 41 and losing 27 with a career high 361 strikeouts. He would finish 554 of his 594 starts. Pitch counts be damned!!!!
After his retirement he would coach at Harvard and Princeton.
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