Bill Hawke

Bill Hawke

Infobox MLB retired
name=Bill Hawke


position=Pitcher
birthdate=April 28, 1870
city-state|Elsmere|Delaware
deathdate=death date and age|1902|12|11|1870|4|28
city-state|Wilmington|Delaware
bats=Right
throws=Right
debutdate=July 28
debutyear=by|1892
debutteam=St. Louis Browns
finaldate=September 30
finalyear=by|1894
finalteam=Baltimore Orioles
stat1label=Win/Loss Record
stat2label=Strikeouts
stat3label=Earned run average
stat1value=32-31
stat2value=193
stat3value=4.98
teams=
*St. Louis Browns (by|1892–by|1893)
*Baltimore Orioles (by|1893–by|1894)
highlights=
* Pitched a No-hitter on August 16, 1893 against the Washington Senators.

William Victor "Bill" Hawke (April 28 1870 – December 11 1902) was an American Major League Baseball player who pitched for three seasons, all in the National League, with a career record of 32 wins and 31 losses.cite web| title = Bill Hawke's Stats | work = retrosheet.org | url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/H/Phawkb101.htm | accessdate = 2008-01-29 ]

Career

Born in Elsmere, Delaware, he began his major league career with the St. Louis Browns in by|1892. He pitched in 14 games that first season, with a 5-5 win/loss record and threw one shutout. Bill split by|1893 season between the Browns and the Baltimore Orioles. It was for that latter, that he pitched a no-hitter, 5-0 victory against the Washington Senators on August 16, 1893. It was the first no-hitter at the new distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate. For the 1893 season, the mound was moved from 50 feet to 60 feet 6 inches, the distance that is still used to this day.cite web| title = Bill Hawke's profile | work = delawarebaseball.com | url=http://www.delawarebaseball.com/hawk1.html#tab7 | accessdate = 2008-01-29 ] He finished his career the following season, with a 16-9 record for the National League champion Baltimore Orioles.cite web| title = 1894 Baltimore Orioles team page | work = baseball-reference.com | url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BLN/1894.shtml | accessdate = 2008-01-29 ]

Post-career

On December 11, 1902, he died of carcinomacite web| title = The Dead Ball Era: Too Young To Die | work = thedeadballera.com | url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/tooyoung.html | accessdate = 2008-01-29 ] at the age of 32 in Wilmington, Delaware, and was interred at Wilmington & Brandywine Cemetery in Wilmington.

References

ee also

* List of Major League Baseball no-hitters

External links

*
* [http://tripleplays.sabr.org/tp_pos1.htm Triple plays]

Persondata
NAME = Hawke, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Hawke, Bill
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Major League Baseball player
DATE OF BIRTH = April 28, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH = Elsmere, Delaware
DATE OF DEATH = December 11, 1902
PLACE OF DEATH = Wilmington, Delware


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