Bob Shawkey
Baseball
Shawkey was born to John William Shawkey and Sarah Catherine Anthony, in Sigel, Pennsylvania.\n', '
He moved from Slippery Rock State College to an independent league in 1911, then to the American League in 1912 as a pitcher for Connie Mack\'s Philadelphia Athletics. In 1915, Mack sold him to the New York Yankees where he remained (except for a brief service with the U.S. Navy during World War I when he served on the battleship Arkansas for eight months) until 1931. While facing his former team in 1919, he struck out 15 A\'s batters in a game, setting the Yankees team record for most strikeouts in a game; this record lasted for fifty-nine years.\n', '
At the start of the 1923 season, Shawkey was chosen to be the Yankees\' Opening Day starting pitcher. Because the team\'s first game was at home, this also meant that he was the first player to pitch at the newly built Yankee Stadium.…
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