Earl Andrew Hamilton (July 19, 1891 – November 17, 1968) was a MLB left-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Browns (1911–1916, later in 1916-1917), Detroit Tigers (1916), Pittsburgh Pirates (1918–1923), and the Philadelphia Phillies (1924). He pitched a no-hitter against Detroit on August 30, 1912. The Tigers did get a run on a Ty Cobb walk and an error, making the final score 5-1 Browns. Hamilton also batted left-handed and ended his career with an average pitcher's batting average of .153 in 733 at bats.

1. Earl Hamilton
MLB debut April 14, 1911 for the St.
Louis Browns
Last MLB appearance May 4, 1924 for the
Philadelphia Phillies
Career statistics
Win-Loss Record 116-147
Earned run average 3.16
Strikeouts 790
Teams
Born: July 19, 1891 St. Louis Browns (1911-1916)
Gibson City, Illinois Detroit Tigers (1916)
Died: November 17, 1968 St. Louis Browns (1916-1917)
(aged 77) Pittsburgh Pirates (1918-1923)
Anaheim, California
Batted: Left Threw: Left Philadelphia Phillies (1924)

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Earl Andrew Hamilton (July 19, 1891 – November 17,
1968) was a MLB left-handed pitcher for the St. Louis
Browns (1911–1916, later in 1916-1917), Detroit Tigers
(1916), Pittsburgh Pirates (1918–1923), and the
Philadelphia Phillies (1924). He pitched a no-hitter
against Detroit on August 30, 1912. The Tigers did get a
run on a Ty Cobb walk and an error, making the final
score 5-1 Browns. Hamilton also batted left-handed and
ended his career with an average pitcher's batting
average of .153 in 733 at bats.

3. Career overview
Born in Gibson City, Illinois, Hamilton played his first
major league game on April 14, 1911. Through the early
to mid-teens, Hamilton was considered a quality pitcher
and was one of the better pitchers on some terrible
Browns teams. In 1914, Hamilton had a very quality
season, going 17-18 with a 2.50 ERA in 302 and 1/3
innings pitched.
After being purchased by Detroit in 1916, he was waived
back to the Browns less than a month later. Then, in 1918,
he finally left St. Louis for good after an 0-9 season, being
purchased by Pittsburgh before the season began. That
season, in 6 starts, he had one of the most amazing
seasons ever recorded. Hamilton was 6-0 with a 0.83 ERA
in 54 innings that year.

4. He finished with 1 shutout in his 6 complete games.
Hamilton had only given up 7 runs (5 earned) in 6 games.
Oddly, he picked that season to enlist in the Navy.
Hamilton returned for more fair seasons with the Pirates.
Along with Wilbur Cooper, Whitey Glazner, and Babe
Adams, he helped make up a good rotation for
Pittsburgh, culminating with a second place finish in 1921
(behind only the New York Giants, 4 games). However,
they never made the World Series with Hamilton.

5. Before he retired in 1924, Hamilton was selected off
waivers by the Phillies, and he went 0-1 with them, with a
10.50 ERA. Hamilton made sparse appearances on
leaderboards throughout his career, such as a 9th place
finish in the ERA leaderboard (3.36, 1921) and a 7th place
finish in wins in 1914, when he had 17. He also made the
top 10 in losses three times (1914, 15, 21), and ended up
finishing only two years of his career with a winning
record; his 6-0 season of 1918 and 1922 (11-7).
In 14 years, he was 116-147 with a solid 3.16 ERA in 410
games (261 starts). He pitched 140 complete games, 16 of
them shutouts. Hamilton recorded 790 career strike outs
and allowed 1075 runs (822 earned) in 2342 and 2/3
innings pitched.

6. He died in Anaheim, California at the age of 77.
Trivia
Hamilton pitched 16 shutout innings on July 16,
1920 with the Pirates, before losing 7-0 against
the New York Giants, clearly having run out of
gas in the 17th. Rube Benton was the Giants'
pitcher, also going 16 shutout innings.

7. Gallery Artists : Earl Hamilton
Earl Hamilton, now in his
forties, spent most of his
childhood living in a small cabin
in the Rodgers Mountain area
outside the town of Scio
(Oregon) in the Willamette
valley, with his parents Satsuko
and George Hamilton, both
successful artists. The family
lived self-sufficiently on their
secluded homestead, painting
together in their cabin's living
room.

8. Thus, from an early age, Earl was influenced to
enter the art world. Living a frugal lifestyle,
hauling water, milking goats, collecting eggs from
their chickens and minus TV and radio, he was
encouraged to read and talk a lot about art. Earl
learned self-sufficiency and a desire to follow his
own artistic instincts. He now lives in Lebanon,
another small Oregon town, where he works on
his paintings every day and usually most of the
night.

9. Earl studied art in high school where he won a
Scholastic Gold Key award for the State of Oregon and a
National Gold Medal Scholastic Award for a competition
in New York City. He won an art scholarship while
studying art at Oregon State University. In 1980, Earl
won The Grumbacker Award for the Northwest
Watercolor Society, and 1981 the First Place Sweepstake
Award for the Watercolor Society of Oregon.
Earl's paintings are filled with a kind of whimsical
lightness reflected in many images such as castles,
clowns, children, animals and lovers.

10. He layers acrylics and uses collage materials in
many of his abstract works. Earl's paintings
whether abstract or whimsical objects, could be
called meditative, mystical, contemplative,
energetic, bold and confident in brushstroke. "I
knew that I would always be an artist. Art has
become a way of life for me, of perceiving and
being. You take art with you whether you paint
or not. It's in your eyes and in your hands."