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{{short description|American baseball player (1918-1980)}}
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{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Ed Head
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|throws=Right
|birth_date={{Birth date|1918|1|25}}
|birth_place=[[Grant Parish, Louisiana]], U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1980|1|31|1918|1|25}}
|death_place=[[Bastrop, Louisiana]], U.S.
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=July 27
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|finalteam=Brooklyn Dodgers
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[
|stat1value=
|stat2label=[[Earned run average]]
|stat2value=3.48
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|teams=
*[[Brooklyn Dodgers]] ({{Baseball year|1940}}, {{Baseball year|1942}}–{{Baseball year|1944}}, {{Baseball year|1946}})
|awards=
* Pitched a [[no-hitter]] on April 23, 1946
}}
'''Edward Marvin Head''' (January 25, 1918 – January 31, 1980) was
Head was notable for a number of reasons, one of them was the physical challenges he overcame to become a major league baseball player. A natural left-handed pitcher, at the age of 15, Head was involved in a vehicle accident that killed his girlfriend and almost resulted in the amputation of his left arm. After hours of surgery, Head's arm was saved but he could no longer use it to pitch, so he switched and became a right handed pitcher.<ref>Weintraub, Robert (2013) ''The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age''. New York: Little Brown and Company,
Head joined the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] in 1940 and after compiling a record of
[[File:Baseball. Head - Lou Riggs BAnQ P48S1P12825.jpg|thumb|left|Ed Head ''(left)'' with [[Lew Riggs]] ''(right)'' in Montreal, 1946
After serving in the Army and not pitching in the majors
Head managed the [[Asheville Tourists]] minor league baseball club in 1949.<ref>
Head died on January 31, 1980, at age 62.<ref>
==See also==
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==External links==
*{{Find a Grave}}
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{{succession box | before = [[Curt Davis]] | title = [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] [[Opening Day]] <br> [[Starting pitcher]]| years = 1943 | after = [[Hal Gregg]]}}
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{{Los Angeles Dodgers Opening Day starting pitchers}}
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[[Category:Baseball players from Louisiana]]
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[[Category:Jackson Senators players]]
[[Category:Abbeville A's players]]
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