Rip Jordan

Raymond Willis "Rip" Jordan (September 28, 1889 – June 5, 1960), nicknamed "Lanky", was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators. Jordan was 6 feet tall and weighed 172 pounds.

Career Jordan was born in Portland, Maine, in 1889. He started his professional baseball career in 1912 as a member of the American League's Chicago White Sox. That year, he made four relief appearances, pitching a total of 12.1 innings and allowing seven earned runs.

In 1919, Jordan started off with the Buffalo Bisons of the class AA International League. He had arguably his best season for them, going 15–10 with a 1.43 earned run average and setting a career-high in victories.

Jordan never pitched in the majors after 1919. In 1920, he moved west to join the Pacific Coast League's San Francisco Seals and went 5–13 with a 5.08 ERA. He finished his playing career the following season in the Texas League.

Jordan was a baseball manager in 1946, when he ran the New England League's Portland Gulls. He died in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1960 at age 70