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Show VARIED CAREER OF VICTOR ALDRIDGE .Pitched for Cubs and Pirates in Big League. Vic Aldridge, whose work on the mound for the Pirates In two of the games was one of the outstanding features fea-tures of the world's series, has had a rather varied baseball career, lie has been a member of only two major league teams, the Cubs and the Pirates, and he has just finished his first season as a member of the Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh club. lie was obtained by the Pirates from the Chicago club in one of the biggest baseball trades of recent re-cent years. Aldridge broke into professional baseball with the Indianapolis club of the American association in 1915. lie participated in only 6- games with that team and his record consisted con-sisted of 2 victories and 2 defeats. He was later sent to the Denyer club of the AVestern league under an optional agreement, but before lie could participate in any .games with the Denver team that club sent him to the Erie club of the Central league. He remained with the Erie team for the rest' of that season. His record for that campaign consisted of 19 victories vic-tories and 9 defeats. At the start of 'the season of lOfj Aldridge was recalled by the Indianapolis Indian-apolis club and he remained with that team during the entire season. He won 16 games and lost 14 that year. Late in that year he was purchased by the Cubs and he joined the Chicago Chi-cago club nt the start of the following . campaign. He participated in 30 games with the Cubs that year, but his record rec-ord consisted of only 6 victories and 6 defeats. Early in the season of 1913 Aldridge Ald-ridge left the Cubs to join the navy after losing one game and winning none with the Chicago club. Later he was sold to the Los Angeles club of the Pacific Coast league and he joined that team at the start of the season of 1919. He won 15 games and lost 10 while with the Los Angeles club that year.- He also remained with that team during the next two seasons. In 1920 his record consisted of 18 victories and 15 defeats, while in the following senson he won 20 games and lost 10. At the -end of the season of 1921 Aldridge was purchnsed by the Cubs again. During 1922 he won 1G games and lost 15 V'ith the Chicago club. In the following year he won 16 and lost 9, while in 1924, his last season as a member of the Cubs, he won 15 and lost 12. While pitching for the Pirates during the past season lie won 15 and lost 7. |