Harry Feldman
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.
Born in the Bronx, Feldman was Jewish, the son of a Romanian Jewish father and a Polish Jewish mother. He grew up in New York and attended Clark Junior High School. He was a right-handed pitcher, 6 feet tall and 175 pounds.
Feldman played in the minor leagues before reaching the majors, with notable seasons for the Blytheville Giants (13–1, 2.02 ERA in 1938) and the Fort Smith Giants. He made his major league debut on September 10, 1941, and earned his first win in his second start, a 4–0 shutout of the Boston Braves on September 21, 1941. That game, with All-Star catcher Harry Danning behind the plate, is believed to be the first all-Jewish pitcher–catcher battery in MLB history.
In a 1944 season he appeared in 40 games. In 1945 he started 30 games and threw three shutouts, finishing 12–13 with a 3.27 ERA. Over his major league career, Feldman went 35–35 with a 3.80 ERA and 254 strikeouts in 666 innings.
In 1946 Feldman left MLB to join the Veracruz Azules in the Mexican League, one of several players to jump to the league. He later played in Cuba and Canada, finishing his career with the San Francisco Seals in 1950.
Feldman remained active in local semi-pro baseball and, as of 2010, ranked eighth all-time in ERA among Jewish major league pitchers.
He died of a heart attack on March 16, 1962, at age 42 while tending his boat at Lake Tenkiller in Oklahoma. He is buried at Rose Lawn Cemetery in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
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