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Rip Sewell

Rip Sewell, American baseball player and coach (died 1989)

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Born
May 11, 1907
Died
September 3, 1989
Zodiac sign
Taurus
Birth year
1907

About Rip Sewell

Truett Banks "Rip" Sewell was an American right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played 13 years in the major leagues with the Detroit Tigers (1932) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1938–1949). Sewell was selected four times to the National League All-Star team (1943–1946) and is credited with inventing the "Eephus pitch." The first time Sewell threw the blooper in a game was in an exhibition match against the Detroit Tigers. Career statistics from MLB · Baseball Reference · Baseball Reference (Minors) · Retrosheet · Baseball Almanac Excerpts from Donald Honig, "Baseball When the Grass Was Real" Rip Sewell at Find a Grave.

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Career and life highlights

The world when Rip Sewell was born

Rip Sewell was born in 1907. 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 1907

  • Best-selling book"The Lady of the Decoration" – Frances Little

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentChicago Cubs win first of back-to-back World Series titles
  • Top headlinePanic of 1907 — financial crisis leads to Federal Reserve creation
  • Technology milestoneFirst commercial helicopter design
  • World population~1.67B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderTheodore Roosevelt
  • U.S. population86.0M

1907 versus 2026

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

Measure19072026
Population86.0M341 million

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