Bert Gallia

{{short description|American baseball player (1891-1976)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Bert Gallia |image=Bert Gallia.jpg |position=Pitcher |bats=Right |throws=Right |birth_date={{birth date|1891|10|14}} |birth_place=Beeville, Texas, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1976|3|19|1891|10|14}} |death_place=Devine, Texas, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=September 4 |debutyear=1912 |debutteam=Washington Senators |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=July 31 |finalyear=1920 |finalteam=Philadelphia Phillies |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Win–loss record |stat1value=66–69 |stat2label=Earned run average |stat2value=3.14 |stat3label=Strikeouts |stat3value=550 |teams= *Washington Senators (1912–1917) *St. Louis Browns (1918–1920) *Philadelphia Phillies (1920) }} '''Melvin Allys "Bert" Gallia''' (October 14, 1891 – March 19, 1976) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1912 to 1920. He played for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, and Philadelphia Phillies.<ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gallibe01.shtml "Bert Gallia Statistics and History"]. ''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2011-02-05.</ref>

Gallia grew up in Woodsboro, Texas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101222/m1/691/|title=The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 105, July 2001 - April, 2002|year=2001}}</ref> As an 18-year-old student at St. Louis College (later St. Mary's University) in San Antonio in 1909, Gallia became famed for striking out Ty Cobb in an exhibition game held at the St. Louis College campus.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130217102255/http://www.stmarytx.edu/gold&blue/content/2009/spring2009/baseball.html]</ref>

==References== {{reflist}} Chicoine, Stephen, article on Bert Gallia's baseball career from Southwestern Historical Quarterly at www.freedomhistory.com

==External links== {{Baseballstats|br=g/gallibe01|brm=gallia001mel}}

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