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"RIXEY DEAD AT 72; MADE HALL OF FAME
Cincinnati. Feb. 28 (AP). Eppa Rixey, a left-handed pitcher who was
voted into baseball's Hall of Fame only last month, died
yesterday. He was 72 years old. Rixey's major league career
spanned 21 years with the Philadelphia Phillies and the Cincinnati Reds,
from 1912 to 1933. He won 266 games and lost 251. His 266
victories set a major league record for left-handers until Milwaukee's
Warren Spahn broke it in 1959. "I'm very glad Spahn broke
it." Rixey quipped at the time, "If he hadn't broken it,
no one would have known I'd set it." Rixey, who became a
successful insurance executive in suburban Mariemont after leaving
baseball, was one of four players elected to the Hall of Fame at
Cooperstown, N. Y. last month. Rixey, 6 feet 5 inches and 210
pounds, was one of the few players of his era who did not reach the major
leagues after an apprenticeship in the minors. He played with the
Philadelphia National League championship team in 1915. Among his
better seasons were 1916, when he had 22 victories and 10 losses with
Philadelphia, and 1922, when he posted 25-13 with Cincinnati. (1963
obituary) Eppa Rixey was born 3 May 1891 and
died 25 February 1963, aged 71 years, buried in Section 22 of Greenlawn
Cemetery, Milford OH, Schaefer-Busby Funeral Home. This was just 32
days after he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Dorothy Meyers
Rixey was born 24 June 1901 and died at the Marjorie P. Lee home 9 May 1992, aged 91 years, buried in
section 33 of Greenlawn Cemetery, Milford OH, Schafer-Busby Funeral Home.
Their son, Eppa Rixey III was born 18 October 1925 and died 22 July 1991,
aged 65 years, buried in St. Thomas Church Columbarium Section 2, Niche 55,
Schaefer-Busby Funeral Home.
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