Uel Eubanks

Uel Melvin Eubanks
(Poss)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 3", Weight 175 lb.

• Debut July 20, 1922
• Final Game August 25, 1922
• Born February 14, 1903 in Quinlan, TX USA
• Died November 21, 1954 in Dallas, TX USA

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Biographical Information

Uel "Poss" Eubanks pitched two games in the majors at age 19 for the Chicago Cubs in 1922. He was the youngest player on the team while the oldest player was Pete Alexander. And as a major league hitter, he went 1-for-1, with that hit being a double off Burleigh Grimes.

Uel was born in Quinlan, TX, east of Dallas, TX. He pitched a number of years in the minors, most notably going 14-6 for the Tyler Trojans in 1928. As a hitter, he usually hit over .250 in the minors.

Eubanks is most famous for being part of a game in which the Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies by the score of 26-23 in nine innings (actually, 8 1/2 because the Cubs were ahead and didn't need to bat in the bottom of the 9th). He pitched two-thirds of an inning and gave up 8 runs, of which only 2 were earned. It was such a high-scoring game that all of the pitchers got hit hard: for instance, Jimmy Ring of the Phillies gave up 16 runs in 3 1/3 innings (of which 6 were earned), and Ed Morris of the Cubs gave up 4 runs in a third of an inning. Ring was a respected pitcher who had a long big league career, while Morris went on to major league success later in the decade. Eubanks, however, although he was only 19 at the time, never came back to the majors.

Outside of baseball, Eubanks struggled with an alcohol addiction, and was arrested after getting caught with alcohol during Prohibition.

He died at age 51 from a brain hemorrhage in 1954.