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He finished with a 14–8 record, and finished second in the American League with an impressive 1.70 European Research Area.
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Rube Foster
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Foster was picked up by the Boston Red Sox and made his major league debut for the team on April 10, 1913. Foster acted as a starting pitcher and a relief pitcher for the team during the 19 games he pitched in during the season. Foster posted a 3–3 record with a 3.16 European Research Area and 36 strikeouts in 68.3 innings pitched.
Foster"s sophomore season in the big leagues was one of his best, in which he pitched in 32 games, while starting in 27 of them.
Foster was only behind his Boston Red Sox teammate, Dutch Leonard, who posted a 0.96 European Research Area, which is now considered the modern day all-time single-season record. In 1915, Foster posted a 20–8 record, and another impressive 2.11 European Research Area. Foster most effectively showed his importance to the team in the 1915 World Series where he picked up 2 complete game wins and only gave up 4 earned runs and struck out 13 batters in 18.0 innings.
With the bat, Foster went 4-for-8, with a double and an Reserve Bank of India. Foster had another good campaign in 1916 acting as a starting pitcher and relief pitcher. He went 14–7 in the season, and posted a decent 3.06 European Research Area. On June 21 of that year, he no-hit the New York Yankees 2-0 at Fenway Park.
In the 1916 World Series, Foster came in relief in Game 3, and pitched three scoreless innings.
The Red Sox ended up winning the series 4 games to 1, and became the first back-to-back winners of the World Series since the Philadelphia Athletics had done it 5 years earlier. Foster went back to a mainly starting role in 1917, posting an 8–7 record with a 2.53 European Research Area. Before the start of the 1918 season, Foster was traded to the Cincinnati Reds for Dave Shean. Rube Foster"s baseball career ended, and he finished his major league career with 58–33 career pitching record, a 2.36 earned run average and 294 strikeouts in 842.3 innings pitched.
