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Marius Russo

Marius Russo, American baseball player (died 2005)

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Born
July 19, 1914
Died
March 26, 2005
Zodiac sign
Cancer
Birth year
1914

About Marius Russo

Marius Ugo Russo was an American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees from 1939 to 1943 and in 1946. He batted right-handed and threw left-handed. A sore arm limited Russo to pitch only 45+1⁄3 innings in 1942, ending the season with a 4–1 record and a 2.78 earned run average in nine games (five as a starter). In a six-season career, Russo posted a 45–34 record with 311 strikeouts and a 3.13 earned run average in 680+2⁄3 innings. In his rookie season for New York, he finished with an 8–3 record and a 2.41 earned run average in 116 innings including two shutouts and nine complete games. Russo also started and won a complete game 2–1 victory in the Yankees 1941 World Series win over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Marius Russo timeline

  1. Russo also started and won a complete game 2–1 victory in the Yankees 1941 World Series win over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
  2. A sore arm limited Russo to pitch only 45+1⁄3 innings in 1942, ending the season with a 4–1 record and a 2.78 earned run average in nine games (five as a starter).

The world when Marius Russo was born

Marius Russo was born in 1914. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1914

  • Best-selling book"The Eyes of the World" – Harold Bell Wright

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports moment"Miracle Braves" complete greatest comeback in baseball history
  • Top headlineWorld War I begins — Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated
  • Technology milestonePanama Canal opens
  • World population~1.74B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population97.2M

1914 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Marius Russo's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19142026
Population97.2M341 million

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