Firpo Marberry, American baseball player and umpire (born 1898)

Firpo Marberry

American baseball player (1898–1976)

Frederick "Firpo" Marberry was an American right-handed starting and relief pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1923 to 1936, most notably with the Washington Senators. The sport's first prominent reliever, he has been retroactively credited as having been the first pitcher to…