Strike Out pitchers during the Babe Ruth era, 1915-1934.

This is a follow up to the previous post.  Babe Ruth's first and last years are omitted.

Would Aroldis Chapman make Babe Ruth faint?  Sunday, March 8, 2015

The fastest pitch recorded by the system is 105.1 miles per hour. It was thrown by Cincinnati Reds reliever Aroldis Chapman on Sept. 24, 2010 ...

In 2014 Aroldis Chapman had 17.4 SO9: 106 in 54 innings.  There were few relief aces back in Ruth's time, certainly no one who would blow away batters...

Dazzy Vance ... led the old National League in SO 1922-1928.  In 1924 Vance had more SO than the next two pitchers combined ...


NL SO leaders in 1924 other than Vance were averaging fewer than 4 SO9.  Chapman was over 17 SO9 in 2014.
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1915 to 1934, (requiring SOp9>=6 and At least 50 Innings Pitched), sorted by greatest Strikeouts per 9 IP

Rk	Player	SO9	IP	Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	GS	CG	SHO	GF	W	L	W-L%	SV	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA	FIP	ERA+	HR	BF	AB	2B	3B	IBB	HBP	SH	SF	GDP	SB	CS	PO	BK	WP	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	Pit	Str
1	Dazzy Vance	7.65	308.1	1924	33	BRO	NL	35	34	30	3	1	28	6	.824	0	238	89	74	77	262	2.16	2.64	174	11	1221					9							0	4
2	Dazzy Vance	7.50	265.1	1925	34	BRO	NL	31	31	26	4	0	22	9	.710	0	247	115	104	66	221	3.53	2.70	118	8	1089					10							0	3
3	Dazzy Vance	7.46	169.0	1926	35	BRO	NL	24	22	12	0	2	9	10	.474	1	172	80	73	58	140	3.89	2.84	98	7	713					1							1	1
4	Whit Wyatt	7.14	85.2	1930	22	DET	AL	21	7	2	0	12	4	5	.444	2	76	41	34	35	68	3.57	4.15	135	6	363					3							0	2
5	Johnny Allen	6.78	71.2	1934	29	NYY	AL	13	10	4	0	2	5	2	.714	0	62	30	23	32	54	2.89	3.58	142	3	309					2							0	5
6	Lefty Grove	6.77	258.0	1926	26	PHA	AL	45	33	20	1	9	13	13	.500	6	227	97	72	101	194	2.51	2.96	165	6	1072					6							0	5
7	Bill Hallahan	6.71	237.1	1930	27	STL	NL	35	32	13	2	3	15	9	.625	2	233	135	123	126	177	4.66	4.42	109	15	1045					0							0	11
8	Jumbo Brown	6.69	74.0	1933	26	NYY	AL	21	8	1	0	8	7	5	.583	0	78	48	43	52	55	5.23	3.95	75	3	349					0							0	2
9	George Earnshaw	6.65	158.1	1928	28	PHA	AL	26	22	7	3	4	7	7	.500	1	143	81	67	100	117	3.81	3.92	105	7	713					1							0	7
10	Red Ruffing	6.60	259.0	1932	27	NYY	AL	35	29	22	3	6	18	7	.720	2	219	102	89	115	190	3.09	3.72	132	16	1098					3							0	5
11	Lefty Grove	6.46	291.0	1930	30	PHA	AL	50	32	22	2	17	28	5	.848	9	273	101	82	60	209	2.54	3.09	185	8	1191					5							0	2
12	Dazzy Vance	6.42	280.1	1928	37	BRO	NL	38	32	24	4	5	22	10	.688	2	226	79	65	72	200	2.09	2.83	190	11	1126					7							0	1
13	Dazzy Vance	6.32	280.1	1923	32	BRO	NL	37	35	21	3	2	18	15	.545	0	263	127	109	100	197	3.50	3.18	111	10	1187					11							0	5
14	Lefty Grove	6.29	261.2	1928	28	PHA	AL	39	31	24	4	6	24	8	.750	3	228	93	75	64	183	2.58	2.75	155	10	1064					1							0	4
15	Lefty Gomez	6.25	234.2	1933	24	NYY	AL	35	30	14	4	3	16	10	.615	2	218	108	83	106	163	3.18	3.65	123	16	1027					0							0	6
16	Bump Hadley	6.21	179.2	1931	26	WSH	AL	55	11	2	1	28	11	10	.524	7	145	81	61	92	124	3.06	3.57	141	4	768					1							0	4
17	Dazzy Vance	6.17	218.2	1931	40	BRO	NL	30	29	12	2	1	11	13	.458	0	221	99	82	53	150	3.38	3.18	114	12	918					0							0	1
18	Walter Beall	6.17	81.2	1926	26	NYY	AL	20	9	1	0	6	2	4	.333	1	71	46	32	68	56	3.53	4.58	110	2	384					6							3	7
19	Dizzy Dean	6.11	293.0	1933	23	STL	NL	48	34	26	3	12	20	18	.526	5	279	113	99	64	199	3.04	2.63	114	11	1202					5							0	2
20	Dazzy Vance	6.09	99.0	1933	42	STL	NL	28	11	2	0	7	6	2	.750	3	105	42	39	28	67	3.55	2.72	98	3	427					1							0	3
21	Dazzy Vance	6.06	273.1	1927	36	BRO	NL	34	32	25	2	2	16	15	.516	1	242	98	82	69	184	2.70	3.07	147	12	1123					6							0	2
22	Dazzy Vance	6.02	258.2	1930	39	BRO	NL	35	31	20	4	3	17	15	.531	1	241	97	75	55	173	2.61	3.61	189	15	1061					5							1	4
23	Dizzy Dean	6.01	286.0	1932	22	STL	NL	46	33	16	4	10	18	15	.545	2	280	122	105	102	191	3.30	3.44	120	14	1203					5							2	2

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Generated 3/8/2015.

23 seasons starting the year after Babe Ruth's rookie season in the American League, 1914, which had a disproportionate number of occurrences

Dazzy Vance dominates with 9 of the 23 seasons, not to be confused with Dizzy Dean who had 2 of the 23.  Whit Wyatt had the fewest starts: 7 in 1930  in 85 innings.  Jumbo Brown had the fewest innings: 74 in 1933.  In only two other seasons did one of these seasons have fewer than 100 innings, including Vance with 99 innings in 1933 at age 42.

In 14 of 23 the pitcher led his league in SO.  Dizzy Dean is the only one to lead his league in innings: 286 in 1932.  Bump Hadley appeared in the most games of the 23 seasons: 55 (11 starts) in 1931, 179 innings.



Dazzy Vance 1922 via Wikimedia Commons