Harry Gumbert

Harry Edwards Gumbert (1909-1995), nicknamed "Gunboat," was a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball whose professional career spanned 21 seasons, including 15 years in the majors. He reached the New York Giants late in 1935 after winning 19 games for the International League's Baltimore Orioles. With the Giants he worked as both a starter and reliever and was part of the 1936 and 1937 National League pennant winners; he won 18 games in 1939 while pitching a career-high 243 innings. Traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in May 1941, he contributed to two more pennant winners, compiling a .667 winning percentage and a 2.91 earned run average over that stretch. Across his 15-season major league career he posted a 143-113 win-loss record with a strikeout total of 709, 96 complete games, 13 shutouts, and 46 saves over 2,156 innings pitched. He was regarded as a strong fielding pitcher, setting a National League record for assists by a pitcher with 10 in a game on May 23, 1938.