Les Tietje, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1910
Place of Birth: Sumner, Iowa, United States
Date of Death: 02-Oct-1996
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Les Tietje
- Leslie William "Toots" Tietje (September 11, 1910 – October 2, 1996) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Chicago White Sox and St.
- Louis Browns between 1933 and 1938.
- Tietje batted and threw right-handed.
- He was born in Sumner, Iowa. He broke into professional baseball in 1931, pitching for the Waterloo Hawks and going 8–13 with a 5.03 ERA.
- He spent 1932 with Waterloo, going 8–14, and hitting .212 with four home runs.
- In 1933, he spent most of the season with the Dallas Steers, going 14–10 with a 3.51 ERA.
- He earned a call up to the big leagues, and on September 18 he made his debut.
- He started three games for the White Sox that year, going 2–0 with a 2.42 ERA.
- As he would throughout his entire career, he walked more batters than he struck out: in 22?1/3 innings, he walked 15 batters and struck out only nine. According to John Carmichael, Tietje was on pace for a successful career, but he developed arthritis in his arm and was hampered by that for the rest of his career.
- In 1934, for example, he was only 5–14 with a 4.81 ERA.
- In 176 innings, he walked 96 batters and struck out only 81.
- His 4.14 strikeouts per nine innings were seventh best in the league that year, and the 20 home runs he gave up were the second most.
- His 14 losses were ninth most. On April 12, 1935, Tietje was scheduled to start the first Chicago White Sox versus Chicago Cubs game ever held at Wrigley Field; he would have faced Lon Warneke.
- That game was rained out however.
- In the 1935 regular season, Tietje went 9–15 with a 4.30 ERA.
- He walked 81 batters and struck out 64.
- His 15 losses were third most in the league, and his six wild pitches were eighth most.
- He began the 1936 season with the White Sox, but after posting a 27.00 ERA in two games with them he was traded to the Browns for Sugar Cain.
- He made 14 appearances for the Browns, half of which he started, and went 3–5 with a 6.62 ERA for them.
- Overall, he went 3–5 with a 7.52 ERA, walking 35 batters and striking out only 19.
- He went 1–2 with a 4.20 ERA in 1937, walking 17 batters and striking out five.
- That season, he spent a large amount of time with the San Antonio Missions, going 14–7 with a 2.67 ERA.
- In 1938, his final season, he went 2–5 with a 7.55 ERA.
- He walked 38 batters and struck out 15. Although he played his final big league game on September 4, 1938, he stuck around and played in the minors until 1942.
- Playing for the Missions in 1939, he went 14–8 with a 3.24 ERA.
- He went 5–7 with a 4.12 ERA for the Missions in 1940.
- Playing for the Waterloo Hawks in 1941, he went 9–8 with a 4.11 ERA.
- In 1942, his final season, he went 0–4. Overall, Tietje went 22–41 with a 5.11 ERA in 105 games (65 starts).
- In 512?2/3 innings, he walked 282 batters and struck out 193.
- He hit .099 in 171 big league at-bats.
- In the minors, he went 67–64.
- Statistically, he is most similar to Mike Morrison, according to the Similarity Scores at Baseball-Reference.com. At the time of his death Tietje lived in Kasson, Minnesota.He was interred at Maple Grove Cemetery in Kasson.
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