Bob Shawkey

James Robert Shawkey (December 4, 1890 – December 31, 1980) was an American baseball pitcher who played fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball. He batted and threw right-handed and served primarily as a starting pitcher. Born in Sigel, Pennsylvania, to John William Shawkey and Sarah Catherine Anthony, he was descended on his father's side from German immigrants named Schaake.

Shawkey moved from Slippery Rock State College to an independent league in 1911, then reached the American League in 1912 as a pitcher for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics. In 1915, Mack sold him to the New York Yankees, where he remained until 1931, the interruption being a brief term of service with the U.S. Navy during World War I, when he spent eight months aboard the battleship Arkansas. He played in the major leagues from 1915 to 1927.

Facing his former Athletics team in 1919, Shawkey struck out 15 batters in a single game, setting the Yankees franchise record for most strikeouts in a game, a mark that stood for fifty-nine years. At the start of the 1923 season, he was chosen as the Yankees' Opening Day starting pitcher, the team's first game that year being played at home.