Eddie Rommel played his entire 13-year playing career with the Philadelphia Athletics (1920-32), where he became one of the first masters of the knuckleball.
After Rommel’s rookie year, he would become a workhorse for the Athletics, leading the American League in Wins twice (1922 & 1925) and Games Pitched (1922 & 1923). His best year was in 1922, when he went 27-13 with a 3.28 ERA and a second-place finish in MVP voting. Philadelphia became an AL power by the end of the decade, but by that time, Rommel was no longer the same Pitcher. He would, however, come out of relief to win a game in the 1929 World Series, which was won by Philadelphia.
Rommel would later have a successful career as an umpire, which included working in the 1943 and 1947 World Series.
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