No relation, but with a name like Hugh “One Arm” Daily (mentioned during the Dan Patrick Radio Show today with Keith Olbermann and Peter Gammons) I had to see who he was.
According to baseball-reference.com, Hugh Ignatius Daily was a righty pitcher playing in the 1880s. He had a 73-87 record over 165 games and 1415.0 innings pitched. A career 2.92 ERA and 1.246 WHIP.
Looks like he got to the bigs late, too, coming in at age 34 with the Buffalo Bisons and leaving at age 39.
- 1882 - Buffalo Bisons (NL)
- 1883 - Cleveland Blues (NL)
- 1884 - Chicago/Pittsburgh (United Association) and Washington Nationals (United Association)
- 1885 - St. Louis Maroons (NL)
- 1886 - Washington Nationals (NL)
- 1887 - Cleveland Blues (American Association)
Wikipedia has more about the origin of his nickname:
[Hugh] was a 19th Century Major League Baseball player who was nicknamed, and is known much of the time today as “One Arm” Daily due to the fact that he lost his left hand to a gun accident. To compensate for this injury, he fixed a special pad over the affected area and caught the baseball by trapping it between the pad and his right hand.
He came up in the radio discussion today in a conversation about no hitters (after Mark Buehrle’s near-perfect game yesterday).
On September 13, 1883, while pitching for the Cleveland Blues of the National League, he pitched a no-hitter against the Philadelphia Quakers, a 1-0 victory.
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