23. Which baseball league saw the first left-handed southpaw pitcher in baseball history, win his 300th career game?
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Answer:
Federal League
The first southpaw 300-game winner was Eddie Plank. Eddie, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1946, made a name for himself with the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League for 14 of his 17 seasons beginning in 1901. With the new Federal League having one season under its belt in 1914, Plank was lured into a big contract to jump ship to the new league, which was trying to become the third Major League of baseball. In 1915 with the St. Louis Terriers, Eddie went 21-11, topping the 300-win plateau. He helped the Terriers to the Federal League pennant. When the Federal League folded after the 1915 season, Plank went from the famous to the unknown when he joined the lowly St. Louis Browns of the American League. Eddie retired in 1917 with a career record of 326-194. He died only nine years later, then was a 1946 Hall of Fame inductee, 20 years after he passed.