Amos Rusie, son of Asbury Rusie, was called the “Hoosier Thunderbolt” in baseball. He pitched the New York Giants to the world championship in 1894.

Finally getting his due when the Veteran’s Committee enshrined him in 1977, Rusie was an anchor for the New York Giants at the end of the 19th Century, reeling off eight 20-win seasons (four of them 30+ seasons), while topping the National League in strikeouts five times and shutouts four times, with two ERA titles thrown in.
His final numbers of 246-174, with a 3.07 ERA and 1707 may not seem overwhelming, but if you can imagine, his career was over by the time he turned 30!
As a matter of fact he really pitched his last full season at the age of 27, with a three game appearance in 1901 with the Cincinnati Reds that encompassed only 22 innings of work.
So really those final numbers represent nine years of Major League ball!
And for those of you that may not know this, the trade that got him to Cincinnati for those scant three games in 1901 goes down as one of the all-time worst trades, sadly for the Reds, as they shipped to New York a young collegiate pitcher who’d go on to an even greater career than Rusie, none other than all-time great Christy Mathewson!
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Hall of Fame pitcher, who played from 1889 to 1901, primarily with the New York Giants, compiling a lifetime 245-174 won-loss record and a 3.07 earned run average. Connie Mack, who managed in the major leagues for 50 years, insisted that Rusie had the greatest fastball he had ever seen. This assertion is backed up by the fact that in 1893 the pitching distance was moved back from 50 feet to 60 feet 6 inches to give batters a chance against Rusie's overpowering fastball. Rusie's catcher, Dick Buckley, once admitted to putting a sheet of lead in his glove to enable him to catch Rusie's fastball. Originally from Indiana, Rusie's nickname was the "Hoosier Thunderbolt. " Upon retirement from baseball in 1901, he returned to Indiana and worked in a pulp and paper mill until moving to Seattle in 1911 to take a steamfitter's job. In 1921, John McGraw hired Rusie as the superintendent of the Polo Grounds in New York, a job Rusie held until 1929. He then returned to Seattle where he died on December 6, 1942 at the age of 71.