Doyle Lade
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Doyle Marion Lade (Porky)
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 5' 10", Weight 183 lb.
- Debut September 18, 1946
- Final Game September 29, 1950
- Born February 17, 1921 in Fairbury, NE USA
- Died May 18, 2000 in Lincoln, NE USA
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[edit] Biographical Information
Doyle Lade pitched 12 seasons 1939 to 1954, five in the Major Leagues and nine in the minors, losing three years to the Military and being inactive in 1940. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II (1943-1945) (BR). Lade was signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1941. He pitched for the Chicago Cubs from 1946 to 1950. The corpulent Cub was 11-10 as a rookie in 1947 but never won more than five or had an ERA under 4.00 after that. A switch-hitter in his first two seasons, he had a lifetime .220 BA and was considered a good-hitting pitcher (AA).He died in 2000 at age 79.
[edit] Highlights
- July 8, 1942: Pitched no-hit game against San Antonio in the Texas League, 19420708, winning his own game with a homerun.
- August 31, 1947: The Cubs overcome Ralph Kiner's 39th homer of the season to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6–3, in Chicago. Lade goes the distance. Kiner's homer, with one aboard, gives him 101 RBIs for the year.
- August 31, 1948: Before 45,531 at Wrigley Field, the last place Cubs beat the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers, 3–0 and 7–2. Hank Borowy stops Brooklyn on one hit in the opener—a single by Gene Hermanski —and faces just 27 batters. He hurls 100 pitches, while Bob Scheffing drives in all three runs. Lade wins the nitecap. The loss slices Brooklyn's lead to two gamess over the Boston Braves, 3–1 winners at Cincinnati, while the St. Louis Cardinals]] and Pittsburgh Pirates move just two games back.
- June 28, 1950: Roy Smalley of the Cubs hits for the cycle in a 15–3 win over the Cards at Wrigley Field. Lade is the winner.
- July 16, 1950: The Cubs knock the Philadelphia Phillies out of a tie for first place, sweeping 8–0 and 10–3. The Cubs lose Phil Cavarretta when he is hit by a Ken Johnson pitch in game 1, fracturing his forearm. Hank Sauer takes over 1B. Monk Dubiel fires the shutout and Lade is the winner in game 2, going the distance. The loss goes to Bob Miller in game 2, the first defeat for the rookie after eight straight wins. Ex-Bruin Russ Meyer loses the first game after defeating the Cubs five straight times (as noted by Ed Hartig). The Mad Monk, the greatest ever Cubs killer, will win his next 17 decisions against Chicago before losing on May 11, 1955.
[edit] Sources
Principal sources for Doyle Lade include newspaper obituaries (OB), government Veteran records (VA,CM,CW), Stars & Stripes (S&S), Sporting Life (SL), The Sporting News (TSN), The Sports Encyclopedia:Baseball 2006 by David Neft & Richard Cohen (N&C), old Who's Who in Baseballs {{{WW}}} (WW), old Baseball Registers {{{BR}}} (BR) , old Daguerreotypes by TSN {{{DAG}}} (DAG), Stars&Stripes (S&S), The Baseball Necrology by Bill Lee (BN), Pat Doyle's Professional Ballplayer DataBase (PD), The Baseball Library (BL), Baseball in World War II Europe by Gary Bedingfield (GB) {{{MORE}}} and independent research by Walter Kephart (WK) and Frank Russo (FR) and others.
