Jimmy Lavender

James Sanford Lavender (1884–1960) was a right-handed pitcher from Barnesville, Georgia, who spent the bulk of his Major League Baseball career with the Chicago Cubs from 1912 to 1916 before finishing with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1917. A spitball specialist, Lavender won 16 games as a rookie in 1912 at age 28. That July, he defeated Rube Marquard to end Marquard's consecutive win streak at 19 games, tying the MLB record at the time for longest win streak by a pitcher. His career never matched that early promise, with no subsequent season exceeding 11 wins.