1933 Earl Whitehill & Luke Sewell Washington Senators Signed AL Baseball JSA COA
Rare 1933 Earl Whitehill & Luke Sewell (Pitcher/Catcher) Washington Senators Signed Game Used American League (Harridge) Baseball. Comes with full letter COA from JSA. 1933 was the best seasons for both Sewell and Whitehill. The Senators played in the World Series in 1933.
In 1933, Sewell was traded to the Washington Senators for catcher Roy Spencer.[11] He posted career-highs with 125 hits including 30 doubles along with 61 runs batted in as, the Senators under first-year player-manager Joe Cronin, won 99 games to clinch the American League pennant by nine games over the New York Yankees.[1][12] During a September game against the Yankees, Sewell made an odd double play.[13] Lou Gehrig and Dixie Walker were on base when, Tony Lazzeri hit a ball to deep right field.[13] Gehrig hesitated as he waited to see if the ball might be caught, before heading towards home plate with Walker right behind him.[13] Sewell received the throw from the outfield and tagged both runners out with one sweeping motion.[13] Cronin credited Sewell as a major factor in helping the Senators' pitching staff.[14] The Senators eventually lost to the New York Giants in the 1933 World Series.[15] In what would be his only postseason appearance, Sewell posted a .176 batting average (3 for 17), with one stolen base, one run scored, and one run batted in during the five-game series.
After he was traded to Washington, for Firpo Marberry and Carl Fischer, Whitehill fit right in there, going a career-best 22–8 in his first year, with a 3.33 ERA (also a career-best, excluding his first year when he pitched in 8 games and had a 2.73 ERA). With Washington that year, he saw his first (and last) postseason action, when the Senators were defeated by the New York Giants in 5 games. However, Whitehill did his part, getting the only win of the series for Washington. In that game, he pitched a complete game shutout allowing 5 hits and 2 walks. Because he didn't start until Game 3, it became his only start of the Series, and his only start of the postseason. Thus, his final postseason ERA was 0.00, tied with many others for a record.
