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Guy Terrell Bush (August 23, 1901 – July 2, 1985) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, nicknamed ''the Mississippi Mudcat.'' Bush played in the major leagues from to and again in . The pitcher played for the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Bees, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds in his seventeen-year professional baseball career. ==With the Cubs== Bush was originally drafted and signed by the Chicago Cubs in for $1,000. After attending the now defunct Tupelo Military Academy in Mississippi, Bush made his major league debut for the team that year on September 17, . In his only game of the season, Bush came in the ninth inning and gave up one hit while striking out two. He returned with the Cubs the following season as a dual-duty starter and reliever. Bush pitched to a 2–5 record in sixteen games, half of which he started. He threw four complete games and finished four others. In 80-2/3 innings of work, he gave up 91 hits and 36 earned runs, and struck out 36 batters. In the following few seasons, Bush started to take a larger role as a reliever. Bush led the league in saves in , with four, and again in when he had eight.〔 He also led the league in relief wins that season and the following season.〔 After finishing the campaign fourth in the league with a 2.86 earned run average in a primarily relief setting,〔 Bush started more games than he relieved the following season. Despite giving up 79 walks while only striking out 62 batters, he had a 10–10 record on the year, with a 3.03 ERA. Bush started 22 of his 36 games, including a marathon on May 14, , in which Bush and Boston Braves starter Charlie Robertson duelled for eighteen innings.〔 Bush won the game after Robertson tired, surrendering five runs in the 18th inning. In the National League since then, only Carl Hubbell in and Vern Law in have matched Bush's marathon performance.〔 Bush's ERA to 3.83 the next year, but he did post a 15–6 record in 42 games, 24 of which he started. Bush followed up with a career year in . He finished the year on top of the league in saves and games pitched, and fourth in the league for wins.〔 Also that year, Bush ranked twelfth in the NL Most Valuable Player Award voting.〔 Even more impressive, Bush had a streak of eleven straight wins until it was broken by a relief loss on August 12 against the Braves.〔 Bush was a large contributor to the team's pennant-winning season, in which they finished on top of the NL with a 98–54 record. Bush was most dominant in the 1929 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics. Bush pitched two games in the series, starting one and relieving another. Bush started Game 3 and pitched a complete game, surrendering only one run on nine hits. Despite the Cubs' loss of the Series in five games, Bush pitched a total of eleven innings with 4 strikeouts and gave up just one run.〔 After the success of the season, Bush had a disappointing season in . In 225 innings of work, Bush posted a 15–10 record with a 6.20 ERA, one of the worst in the league that season. He gave up 291 hits, fifth highest in the league, and led the league in earned runs allowed with 155 and wild pitches with 12. In November , writer F.C. Lane wrote in ''Baseball Magazine'' about Bush's unique pitching windup: Bush had an improved season in , thanks to performances such as a September 13 one-hitter against the Braves. He finished the year with a 16–8 record and a 4.49 ERA, in 180.1 innings of work. The following year, the Cubs again won the pennant behind Bush's 19–11 record and 3.20 ERA. That year, Bush finished the year third in the league for wins and 23rd in the NL MVP voting. The Cubs were pinned up against the New York Yankees in the 1932 World Series. It was an infamous matchup, known now for the general tension and fighting between both teams. Bush did not fare well this time around in the World Series. As the starting pitcher for the Cubs in Game 1, Bush gave up eight runs on three hits, and walked five in just five innings of work, en route to a 12–6 Yankees win. Bush started Game 4, and lasted less than an inning. He hit Babe Ruth and gave up two hits and one earned run and was plucked from the pitching mound. For the series, Bush finished with a 0–1 record and 14.29 ERA, and gave up nine earned runs in less than six innings of work. Bush bounced back the next year, finishing the year with his first 20-game winning season. Bush had another career year, finishing second in the league in wins and ninth in the league with a 2.75 ERA. Bush followed up with another solid season in , his last with the Cubs. On November 22, , just a little over a month after the season, Bush was traded along with outfielder Babe Herman and Jim Weaver to the Pittsburgh Pirates for left-handed pitcher Larry French and future Hall of Famer Freddie Lindstrom, also then playing outfield after spending most of his career at third base.〔 Bush left the Cubs after twelve years with the team and finished as one of the club's winningest pitchers with a record of 152–101. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guy Bush」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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