Head played
minor league baseball during 1913–1917 and 1919–1931; Head spent the 1923 season with the
Philadelphia Phillies, his only
major league season. In 35 games (13 starts) he compiled a 2–9 record with a 6.66
earned run average, while striking out 24 batters in
innings pitched. Two games that Head pitched in are historically notable: • Head's start against the
New York Giants on June 1, 1923, became the first game in baseball's modern era (since 1900) that a team scored in all nine innings; accomplished by the Giants, in a 22–8 victory. Head allowed six runs on six hits, facing 14 batters in innings of work, and was the
losing pitcher of the game. • Head's final game in the major leagues, played on October 6, 1923, featured shortstop
Ernie Padgett of the
Boston Braves executing an
unassisted triple play. The Phillies lost to the Braves, 4–1, with Head scoring the Phillies' only run. Head was born in 1893 in
Tallapoosa, Georgia. as a
private first class in
Company A of the
328th Infantry Regiment; he was
wounded in action in October 1918 in
Sommerance, France. He died in 1962 in
Muscadine, Alabama, and was interred in his hometown. ==References==