About Waite Hoyt
Waite Charles Hoyt was an American right-handed professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for seven different teams during 1918–1938. He was one of the dominant pitchers of the 1920s, and the most successful pitcher for the New York Yankees during that decade. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Hoyt finished his career with a win–loss record of 237–182 and an ERA of 3.59. During his 21-year career, he won 10 or more games 12 times, 11 of them consecutively. By the time he retired in 1938, he had pitched the most victories in World Series history (his World Series record with the Yankees and A's was 6–4). In his finest years with the Yankees, 1927 and 1928, Hoyt posted records of 22 wins and 7 losses with a 2.64 earned run average (ERA) and 23 wins and 7 losses with a 3.36 ERA.
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