• Card series: Pioneer Portraits II: 1875-1899
• City: Louisville
• Team: Colonels
• League: National League
• Hall: National Baseball Hall of Fame

George E. Waddell (1876-1914) was one of the premier pitchers in MLB history and also a man-child who’d leave the dugout and chase a fire truck. His titanic struggles with Cy Young made for the greatest pitching duels of all time. Connie Mack described his curve as the “fastest and deepest I’ve ever seen.”

• Waddell’s perplexing personal and social problems led to a shortened career and life
• Driven to distraction, Mack sold Rube to the Browns for the ’08 season, his last hurrah
• Elected to Hall of Fame: 1946