{{Short description|American baseball player (1897–1965)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Ed Sherling |position=Pinch hitter/Pinch runner |image=Ed Sherling yearbook.jpg |bats=Right |throws=Right |birth_date={{Birth date|1897|7|18}} |birth_place=Coalburg, Alabama |death_date={{death date and age|1965|11|16|1897|7|18}} |death_place=Enterprise, Alabama |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=August 13 |debutyear=1924 |debutteam=Philadelphia Athletics |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=September 17 |finalyear=1924 |finalteam=Philadelphia Athletics |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Games |stat1value=4 |stat2label=At bats |stat2value=2 |stat3label=Hit |stat3value=1 |teams= *Philadelphia Athletics ({{mlby|1924}}) }} {{Infobox college football player |name=Ed Sherling |image= |caption= |currentposition=Fullback |major= |birth_date= |birth_place= |height_ft=6 |height_in=1 |weight_lb=185 |highlights= *SIAA championship (1919) *All-Southern (1920, 1921, 1922) |highschool= |pastschools= *Auburn (1919–1922) }}
'''Edward Creech Sherling''' (July 18, 1897 – November 16, 1965) was a Major League Baseball pinch hitter and pinch runner who played in {{Baseball year|1924}} with the Philadelphia Athletics. He batted left and threw right-handed. He attended college at Auburn University playing for the baseball and the football teams.
In December 1921 a fire broke out at the Stabler Hospital in Greenville, Alabama. Sherling happened to be passing by, and saved several people by carrying them to safety. Three corpses were pulled from the ruins after the blaze.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19211202&id=OsUuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=m9gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2029,5568479|newspaper=The Miami News|title=Bodies Of Three Founds In Ruins Of Hospital Fire|date=December 2, 1921}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Auburn University== Sherling was a fullback on Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers football team. He was elected All-Southern three times; and was selected to coach Donahue's all-time Auburn team.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19330110&id=9LM-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=UkwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6571,378292|title = Mike Donahue Names All-Time Auburn Football Team|date = January 10, 1933|work = The Tuscaloosa News}}</ref>
===1920=== Sherling was a prominent member of the team in 1920, one of Auburn's greatest teams.<ref>Russell, Fred, and Maxwell Edward Benson. ''Fifty Years of Vanderbilt Football''. Nashville, Tennessee, 1938, p. 38</ref> Sherling also played on the 1921 team. He won the Porter Cup both years.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=se5EAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA26 |title = Catalogue of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama|year = 1916}}</ref>
===1922===
The 1922 team upset defending Southern champions Centre and is also considered highly; considered best by Sherling himself.<ref name="Enteprise">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19550116&id=lg0wAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uQQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1645,6354628|newspaper=Ocala Star-Banner|title=Auburn's Gator Bowl Champs Rated Among Top Tiger Teams|date=January 16, 1955}}</ref> Walter Camp gave Sherling honorable mention on his All-America team.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1937349/camp_1922_all_america/|title=Camp's All America Stars Show Why They Are Winners; Have Brains, Power, Spirit|work=Harrisburg Telegraph|date=December 26, 1922|access-date=March 8, 2015|via=Newspapers.com|page=15}} {{Open access}}</ref>
==Professional baseball== Sherling made his Major League debut on August 13, 1924 against the Detroit Tigers.<ref name="br">{{cite web |title=Ed Sherling Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sherled01.shtml |website=Baseball-Reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=30 December 2025 |language=en}}</ref> The only hit of his Major League career came as a pinch hitter for Stan Baumgartner in the fifth inning of a game at Cleveland's Dunn Field on September 13, 1924.<ref name="br" /><ref name="box" /> He hit a double to left field against Sherry Smith.<ref name="box">{{cite web |title=Philadelphia Athletics vs Cleveland Indians Box Score: September 13, 1924 |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE192409130.shtml |website=Baseball-Reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=30 December 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Baseballstats|brm=sherli002edw|br=s/sherled01}}
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