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Friday, January 20, 2012
 
The 28th greatest player in Cincinnati Reds history is Noodles Hahn.

How do you get a nickname like "Noodles?" Sources differ on how Frank George Hahn gained that name, but all revolve around his mother's noodle soup: he liked it, he carried it to his dad for lunch, he sold it on the street corner. At any rate, it's about soup. Probably made a lot of sense at the time.

The Nashville native started playing minor league ball while just a teenager and made a name as a hard-throwing lefty. The Reds got interested and picked him up for the 1899 spring training, then put him in the pitching rotation for the season. Hahn would lead the National League in strikeouts for the next three seasons, featuring a hopping fastball and a sharp-breaking curve. The lefty was also heavily worked, one of the few assets on an often-mediocre Cincinnati club.

Hahn put together six very strong years of performance for the Reds, with win-loss records that were not always impressive but with ERAs that were always much better than average, even in the deadball era. That heavy use, six years of at least 290 innings each, took a toll as Hahn only got into thirteen games in 1905. His arm was nearly gone. The Reds let him go, and he caught on briefly with the Highlanders for 1906, but the arm didn't come back and Hahn left the pro game.

His life continued, though. Brighter than most players of his time, he began in veterinary college while still playing. He would become a veterinary inspector in Cincinnati for many years after his playing career. He also spent time as a semi-pro pitcher after his career in the majors. And he stuck around Reds as a batting-practice pitcher into the 1940s. Hahn would put on a uniform and pitch to the guys before games, thus playing a small part in the 1919 and 1940 World Series wins.

Hahn and his wife would retire and move to North Carolina, where he passed in 1960 at age 80. He was a storied part of Cincinnati baseball history. Hahn had a 127-92 record and 2.52 ERA as a Red, with a 134 ERA+.


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