March

Who is this high-strung speedballer?

I was born March 6, 1900, in Lonaconing, Maryland.

My given first and middle names were Robert Moses, but I am much better known by my nickname.

I made by big league debut on April 24, 1925, with the Philadelphia Athletics on the same day that teammate Mickey Cochrane made his debut.

Between 1929 and 1931, I went 79-15 for three pennant-winning Athletics' teams. In 1931 alone, I went 31-4, with a 16-game winning streak.

I was traded to the Red Sox in 1934 and played the last eight seasons of my career in Fenway, retiring in 1941.

Overall, I won 300 games in the majors (and another 112 in the minors), led the A.L. in strikeouts seven consecutive seasons, and won nine ERA titles, by far the most in major league history.

February's featured player, Charley Gehringer, once said that my fastball was "so fast that by the time you'd made up your mind whether it would be a strike or not, it just wasn't there anymore."

I was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947.

I died on May 22, 1975, in Norwalk, Ohio, age 75.