Former Phillie of the Day - Bill Duggleby

I consider myself a pretty big Phillies fan. But I'd never heard of Bill Duggleby until just now. I just got back from the Phillies Charities 5K and thought today's FPOTD should be somehow connected to the 5K. So I present Bill Duggleby, who hold the Phillies team record for allowing the most runs in one game. He gave up 17 to the Cincinnati Reds on Sept. 19, 1903.

Duggleby wasn't too bad a pitcher, a quick scan of Baseball Reference shows. He won 20 games in 1901 and 18 in 1905. For his career, he was 93-102 with a very respectable 3.18 ERA. His career WHIP was a little high at 1.302.

But what happened on that September day in 1903? Did he piss off his manager so badly that he stayed in the whole game? I can't seem to find the boxscore, but the Phils lost that game 17-7. They won the second game of the doubleheader, 10-4. Maybe the Phils had run out of pitchers by that point in the season and it was Duggleby's turn to take one (or 17) for the team. The 1903 Phils went 49-86 and finished 7th in the National League, 6 games ahead of the last-place Cardinals and 39.5 BEHIND the first-place Pirates.