Joe Giard

American baseball player (1898-1956)

Baseball player

Joe Giard
Pitcher
Born: (1898-10-07)October 7, 1898 Ware, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died: July 10, 1956(1956-07-10) (aged 57) Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Batted: Left Threw: Left
MLB debut
April 18, 1925, for the St. Louis Browns
Last MLB appearance
September 25, 1927, for the New York Yankees
MLB statistics
Wins	13
Losses	15
Earned run average	5.96

Teams
St. Louis Browns (1925–1926) New York Yankees (1927)

Joseph Oscar Giard (October 7, 1898 – July 10, 1956) was an American major league baseball pitcher.^[1]

Born in Ware, Massachusetts, Giard played two seasons for the St. Louis Browns, chiefly as a starter, before being traded (along with outfielder Cedric Durst) for pitcher Sad Sam Jones in February 1927;^[2]^[3] Giard was therefore a member of the 1927 New York Yankees,^[4] a team often considered the greatest ever.^[5]^[6] He pitched 27 innings in 16 games, all in relief, for the Yankees that year, with an ERA of 8.00.

Giard died in Worcester, Massachusetts, on July 10, 1956.

References

^ Katz, Stephen Robert (2017). Ware's Boys of Summer: The Stories of Seven Major League Baseball Players from One Small Central Massachusetts Town. pp. 86–102. ISBN 9 781457 549113.
^ Katz, Stephen Robert (2017). Ware's Boys of Summer: The Stories of Seven Major League Baseball Players from One Small Central Massachusetts Town. pp. 86–102. ISBN 9 781457 549113.
^ Gallagher, Mark (2003). The Yankee Encyclopedia. Sports Publishing LLC. pp. 115–116. ISBN 1-58261-683-3.
^ Anderson, Dave (2002). The New York Yankees Illustrated History. St. Martin's Press. p. 36. ISBN 0-312-29094-2.
^ Stout, Glenn (2002). Yankees Century: 100 Years of New York Yankees Baseball. Houghton Mifflin Books. p. 115. ISBN 0-618-08527-0.
^ Mosedale, John (1974). The Greatest of All: The 1927 New York Yankees. Dial Press. ISBN 0-8037-3215-5.