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The chunky curveballer was 14-6 as a rookie (1927), but generally had mediocre records with the Senators. Things got worse with the second-division Browns; in 1932, he led the AL with 21 losses. In 1932 and 1933 he led the league in walks, and retired third on the all-time walks list. After being traded to the powerful Yankees, he achieved consistent success and played on four straight pennant winners (1936-39). Hadley fractured Mickey Cochrane's skull with a pitch in 1937, ending the great catcher's career. Bump came by his nickname as a child when his short, heavy build was likened to that of a children's book character, Bumpus. (JK)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » May 30, 1927: Finally making his first appearance of the season after recovering from a broken foot sustained in spring training, Walter Johnson hurls the last shutout of his career, No. 110, winning 3–0 over Boston. Johnson faces just 29 batters, giving up three hits. The Senators take the 2nd game of the holiday twinbill, 105, behind recruit Bump Hadley. » September 3, 1928: The A's are set back as the Senators stop them twice, 6–1 and 5–4. Bump Hadley wins the opener, scattering six hits and striking out 8. Ty Cobb makes the last of his 4,191 hits, the 724th double of his career, as an A's pinch hitter in the 9th inning against Hadley. In the nitecap, Garland Braxton is the winner over George Earnshaw. » September 7, 1928: The stumbling Yanks drop a pair to the Senators, losing 11–0 and 6–1. Bump Hadley tosses the shutout and adds three singles. Fred Marberry wins the nitecap over Waite Hoyt, for his 2nd win over New York in five days. New York, which led by 13 1/2 games on July 1st, is now tied with the A's. » September 27, 1928: At St. Louis, Bump Hadley pitches the Senators to a 6–5 win over the Browns. Goslin, leading the AL, is 2-for-4, while his rival Heinie Manush has one hit, a 3-run home run in the Browns 5-run 9th. Manush has 13 homers—all at home. » August 18, 1929: Washington hurlers Bump Hadley and Lloyd Brown combine to whitewash the Tigers in a doubleheader, winning 2–0 and 1–0. » May 16, 1930: Washington wins a doubleheader from Philadelphia and moves into first place. Bump Hadley wins the opener, 5–3, and Ad Liska adds a 3-hit 4–0 shutout in the nitecap, beating George Earnshaw. Joe Judge's 3-run homer in the 8th puts the game away. » May 30, 1930: Senators junkballer Ad Liska leads 6–3 over the A's with two outs in the 9th inning when his catcher Muddy Ruel neglects to chase a pop up that could make the 3rd out. Two singles and a homer by Al Simmons knots the game. Simmons then doubles in the 13th, and scores the winning run as the A's win, 7–6. Having hurt his knee in a rundown, Simmons sits for the nitecap. But with the bases jammed in the 5th inning of the nitecap, and the A's down 7–3, Simmons hobbles to plate to hit a pinch grand slam off Bump Hadley to help the A's to a 15–11 win. Simmons later tells John Carmichael this was his greatest game. » December 4, 1931: Bump Hadley, Jackie Hayes, and Sad Sam Jones are traded from Washington to the White Sox for Carl Reynolds and John Kerr. » January 22, 1935: The Senators get Bump Hadley from the St. Louis Browns in a trade for Luke Sewell, who is passed on to the Chicago White Sox. » January 17, 1936: The Yankees trade Jimmy DeShong and Jesse Hill to Washington for Bump Hadley and Roy Johnson. » May 25, 1937: After hitting a solo home run against the Yankees in his third-inning at-bat off Bump Hadley to break a 1–1 tie, player-manager Mickey Cochrane is hit by a 3–1 pitch from Hadley in the 5th inning and suffers a skull fracture in three places. Coach Del Baker will run the team for the hospitalized Detroit leader, who will never return to active play. Cochrane's homer is his last at bat. In the hospital, Cochrane will exonerate Hadley saying, "I lost the ball." The Yanks win the game, 4–3, beating Schoolboy Rowe, who makes his first appearance of the season following a suspension for lack of conditioning. » October 7, 1939: The Series resumes at Crosley Field, and Yankee power proves too much for the Reds. Bump Hadley pitches well enough in relief of Lefty Gomez to wrap up a 7-3 victory. Yankees OFCharlie Keller hits 2 HRs. » December 30, 1940: The Yankees swap sore-armed Monte Pearson to the Reds for OF Don Lang and cash. Tomorrow, they'll Bump Hadley to the Giants for the waiver price and trade INF Bill Knickerbocker to the White Sox for C Ken Silvestri. The military will claim Silvestri for the next four years.