URBAN SHOCKER

One of the least heralded of the great pitchers, 187-117 in late teens through '20s. He threw together four consecutive 20-win campaigns for the Browns, including an AL best 27-12 in 1921. Although his name sounds like a Spike Lee thriller, he was actually very quiet, intense, serious. A finesse pitcher, a legal spitballer, he had a bent finger from his days as a catcher which he said helped his pitching. Spent 1925-28 with the Yankees, died in 1928 of a heart ailment, at age 38.