Firpo Marberry, American baseball player and manager (died 1976)

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…