Vic Willis Pitt.

Victor Gazaway Willis (1876–1947) won 249 games over a thirteen-year career split between the Boston Beaneaters, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and a final season with the St. Louis Cardinals. A right-handed pitcher and hitter with one of the era's better-regarded curveballs, Willis spent the prime of his career absorbing Boston's lean years before being dealt to Pittsburgh, where his arrival promptly produced four straight twenty-win seasons and the 1909 World Series title. The T206 "Pittsburgh" pose belongs to his stretch as a Pirate in the foundational 1909–1911 White Border tobacco issue. Willis recorded fifty career shutouts and threw a no-hitter against Washington in 1899, a season in which he completed forty-one of his forty-six starts in the workload culture of the era. Willis died August 3, 1947 in Elkton, Maryland. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1995 by the Veterans Committee, a long-deferred recognition of one of the dead-ball era's quietly steadiest workhorses.