won 97 games and lost 80, had 102 complete games and a combined earned run average of 3.76. Rogers Hornsby said that Aldridge had one of the three best curveballs he had ever seen, a curveball described by the Baseball Magazine as a "hard, sharp-breaking curve" that was one of the best curveballs in all of baseball. He also threw a screwball. His batting average was .229 (133-for-581), a respectable average for a pitcher. He hit two home runs with 60 RBI. Aldridge twice attempted to steal a base, once each in 1922 and 1926, and succeeded both times. Post career After his playing career ended, Aldridge attended law school at the Voorhees School of Law and served in the Indiana State Senate from 1937 to 1948. He was first elected on November 4, 1936, as a Democrat. He served as a schoolmaster full-time before his baseball career, hence his nickname "The Hoosier Schoolmaster". Aldridge died in Terre Haute at age 79, and is buried in the New Trinity Springs Cemetery of Trinity Springs, Indiana. He was inducted into the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame on January 19, 2007, as its 131st member; his granddaughter, Mary Turner, and grandson, Vic Aldridge III, accepted the award on his behalf. References Footnotes Bibliography External links 1893 births 1973 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Chicago Cubs players Pittsburgh Pirates players New York Giants (NL) players Baseball players from Indiana Indiana state senators Indiana lawyers 20th-century American educators United States Navy personnel of World War I United States Navy sailors Sportspeople from Terre Haute, Indiana People from Martin County, Indiana Canterbury College (Indiana) alumni Screwball pitchers Erie Sailors players Indianapolis Indians players Denver Bears players Los Angeles Angels (minor league) players Newark Bears (IL) players 20th-century American politicians Educators from Indiana 20th-century American lawyers Indiana Democrats