# Red Waller

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{{short description|American baseball player (1883–1915)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
| name       = Red Waller
| image      = Red Waller (cropped).jpg
| caption    = A photograph of Waller published in a 1915 edition of the ''[Hartford Courant](/source/Hartford_Courant)''
| position   = [Pitcher](/source/Pitcher)
| birth_date  = June 16, 1883
| birth_place = [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.), U.S.
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1915|2|9|1883|6|16}}
| death_place = [Jersey City, New Jersey](/source/Jersey_City%2C_New_Jersey), U.S.
| bats       = Unknown
| throws     = Unknown
|debutleague = MLB
| debutdate  = April 27
| debutyear  = 1909
| debutteam  = New York Giants
|finalleague = MLB
| finaldate  = April 27
| finalyear  = 1909
| finalteam  = New York Giants
|statleague = MLB
| stat1label = [Innings pitched](/source/Innings_pitched)
| stat1value = 1.0
| stat2label = [Earned run average](/source/Earned_run_average)
| stat2value = 0.00
| teams      =
* [New York Giants](/source/New_York_Giants_(NL)) ({{mlby|1909}})
}}
'''John Francis "Red" Waller''' (June 16, 1883 – February 9, 1915) was an American [Major League Baseball](/source/Major_League_Baseball) [pitcher](/source/pitcher) who played for one season. He pitched for the [New York Giants](/source/New_York_Giants_(NL)) for one game on April 27 during the [1909 New York Giants season](/source/1909_New_York_Giants_season). He pitched one inning, allowing two runs, neither of them earned.

An obituary of Waller in the ''[Hartford Courant](/source/Hartford_Courant)'' described him as "one of the greatest minor league pitchers that ever hurled a ball" but added that "failure to take care of himself cost him his chance for major league fame." He died at just 31 years old and left behind a wife and 8-year-old son in [Jersey City, New Jersey](/source/Jersey_City%2C_New_Jersey).<ref>{{cite news |title=Red Waller Dead After Long Illness |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-red-waller-dead-after-l/126794161/ |access-date=20 June 2023 |work=[Hartford Courant](/source/Hartford_Courant) |date=13 February 1915 |pages=20}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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Category:1883 births
Category:1915 deaths
Category:Major League Baseball pitchers
Category:Baseball players from Washington, D.C.
Category:New York Giants (baseball) players
Category:Waterbury Rough Riders players
Category:Bridgeport Orators players
Category:Jersey City Skeeters players
Category:Lynn Leonardites players
Category:20th-century American sportsmen

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