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Harry Feldman
Harry Feldman
	Pitcher
	Born: November 10, 1919; New York, New York, U.S.
	Died: March 16, 1962 (age 42); Fort Smith, Arkansas, U.S.
	Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
	September 10, 1941, for the New York Giants
Last MLB appearance
	April 25, 1946, for the New York Giants
MLB statistics
Win–loss record	35–35
Earned run average	3.80
Strikeouts	254
	Stats at Baseball Reference
Teams
	New York Giants (1941–1946);

Harry Feldman (November 10, 1919 – March 16, 1962) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the New York Giants from 1941 to 1946.

Early and personal life

Feldman was born and grew up in the Bronx, and was Jewish, the son of a Romanian Jewish father and a Polish Jewish mother.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Feldman attended Clark Junior High School in the Bronx.

Feldman was a 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m), 175 lb (79 kg) right-hander.

Minor league career

Feldman pitched for the Blytheville Giants of the Northeast Arkansas League in 1938. He had a 13–1 record and 2.02 ERA, both the best in the league that year. He was moved to the Fort Smith Giants of the Western Association, where he was 7–7 with a 3.98 ERA in 1938. In 1939 his record was 25–9.^{[citation needed]} With the Jersey City Giants in 1940, Feldman was 5–13 with a 3.64 ERA. In 1941 he went 14–16 with a 3.42 ERA.^{[citation needed]}

Major league career

Feldman won his first major league game in his second start, a 4–0 shutout over the Boston Braves in the second game of a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds (September 21, 1941). With All-Star Giants catcher Harry Danning behind the plate, that appearance may have been the first all-Jewish battery in MLB history.^[5]

In 1944 Feldman was 9th in the NL with 40 games pitched.^[1] In 1945 Feldman was 6th in the NL in games started (30) and shutouts (3), and 9th in innings (217.7) and batters faced (933).^[1] He was 12–13, with a 3.27 ERA.^[1]

His career totals include a 35–35 record, 143 games pitched, 78 starts, 22 complete games, 6 shutouts, 28 games finished, and 3 saves.^[1] In 666 innings pitched Feldman struck out 254, walked 300, and had an earned run average of 3.80.^[1]

In 1946, Feldman joined what became a total of 27 major league players, including Max Lanier, Mickey Owens, Vern Stephens and George Hausmann, in jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League. Feldman signed with the Azules de Veracruz.^[5] The following year he played in Havana, Cuba. In 1949 he pitched for a while in the Provincial League for Sherbrooke, Quebec, and then moved to San Francisco where he pitched his last two seasons with the San Francisco Seals, going 6–9 with a 4.31 ERA in 1949 and 11–16 with a 4.38 ERA in 1950. He retired at the end of that season.^{[citation needed]}

Feldman was 8th lifetime in ERA of all Jewish major league pitchers through 2010, behind among others Sandy Koufax and Ken Holtzman.^[6]

After baseball

Feldman was very active in the local semi-pro league.

On March 16, 1962, at age 42, Feldman died of a massive heart attack while tending his boat at Lake Tenkiller in nearby Oklahoma. He is buried at Rose Lawn Cemetery, Fort Smith, Arkansas.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Harry Feldman Stats". baseball-reference.com. sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 24, 2018.
^ Boxerman, Burton A.; Boxerman, Benita W. (December 2006). Jews And Baseball: Volume I: Entering the American Mainstream, 1871–1948. McFarland & Company. p. 167. ISBN 0-7864-2828-7.
^ "Jewish Post 4 May 1945 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program". newspapers.library.in.gov. Retrieved November 24, 2018.
^ Horvitz, Peter S.; Horvitz, Joachim (November 24, 2018). The Big Book of Jewish Baseball. SP Books. ISBN 9781561719730. Retrieved November 24, 2018 – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b McKelvey, G. Richard (2006). "Ace Adams and Harry Feldman". Mexican Raiders in the Major Leagues: The Pasquel Brothers Vs. Organized Baseball, 1946. McFarland. ISBN 9780786425631.
^ "Career Pitching Leaders". Career Leaders. Jewish Major Leaguers. Archived from the original on April 17, 2019. Retrieved February 12, 2011.