Rube Waddell Awards

What awards did Rube Waddell win? This page lists every known baseball award won by Rube Waddell in chronological order. Click the award name and up comes a comprehensive history of that award along with every winner of that particular baseball award.

"Rube Waddell loved pitching, fishing and drinking. When he died, the found him in a gin-filled bathtub with three drunken trout." - Mike Royko in the Chicago Sun-Times (1981)

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Rube Waddell
 
 
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Birth Name:   George Edward Waddell
Nickname:   Rube
Born On:   10-13-1876  (Libra)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Bradford, Pennsylvania
Year of Death Data Died On:   04-01-1914
Place of Death Data Died In:   San Antonio, Texas
Cemetery:   Mission Burial Park, San Antonio, Texas Click For Grave Photo
High School:   Undetermined
College:   Volant College
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Left
Player Height Chart Height:   6-01½   Player Weight Chart Weight:   196
First Game:   09-08-1897 (Age 20)
Last Game:   08-01-1910
Draft:   Not Applicable
Rube Waddell

Awards

1905 Triple Crown of Pitching
1946 National Baseball Hall of Fame


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