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Biggs Wehde

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Win-loss record
  
1-0

Role
  
Baseball player

Name
  
Biggs Wehde

Strikeouts
  
6

Earned run average
  
7.66


Died
  
September 21, 1970, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

Wilbur "Biggs" Wehde (November 23, 1906 – September 21, 1970) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played in 1930 and 1931 with the Chicago White Sox. He batted and threw right-handed.

Biggs was born and grew up on an eleven-acre dairy farm on the edge of Holstein, IA where is father operated a small creamery. He was the eldest of nine children born to Gus and Anna Wehde. His twin brothers Ray and Roy were basketball players at Holstein High and Iowa State University. He played minor league baseball for the Sioux City Cowboys and the Dubuque Tigers of the Mississippi Valley League before joining the White Sox in September 1930.

Biggs served as Specialist 3 in the US Navy during World War II.

References

Biggs Wehde Wikipedia