Gus Yost (or Jost) pitched one game for the 1893 Chicago
Colts.
On June 12, 1893, the Chicago Colts played the Nationals in
Washington. From the next day’s Chicago Daily Inter Ocean:
JOST WAS ONLY A JOKE
Anson Tried Comedy in the Game at Washington
MADE IT A WALKING MATCH
Runs Forced In by the New-found Apprentice.
Mauck Finally Substituted Too Late to Save the Colts from Defeat.
…Anson presented the most untamed pitcher that ever escaped from an asylum in the person of young Jost. The first eight balls pitched sent two men to base, and with an occasional strike and foul he kept it up until five consecutive contestants had entered in the walking match. To these were added a wild pitch and a base hit, and yet only two runs were scored. Anson’s lucky angel was on the watch and inspired Hoy and O’Rourke to try running instead of walking, and both perched at second and Larkin was the third out, when he tried to make three bases on Farrell’s single.
Anson hugged himself that he had gotten off with less than four or five runs and kept the young man at it until he had sent three more to first and two hits had been made in the third; then he jerked him out, put his other German, Mauck, who was quite as effective as on Saturday, except in one inning…
The June 17 Sporting Life summed it up as “Anson
tried an amateur named Yost in the box, but he could not locate the plate and
gave way to Mauck in the third inning.” Gus allowed four earned runs on three
hits and eight walks in 2 2/3 innings, while striking out one. His teammates in
the game included, besides manager/firstbaseman Cap Anson, Jimmy Ryan, Bill
Dahlen, Walt Wilmot, and Bill “Little Eva” Lange; the Nationals lineup included
Dummy Hoy, Jim O’Rourke, Sam Wise, Duke Farrell, and pitcher Al Maul.
The Chicago column in the June 24 Sporting Life mentioned
that “Pitcher Yost, who was given a trial in Washington, was left behind.” Nothing
more is known about Yost/Jost, except that he is listed as having been 6’5”,
but I have no idea where that comes from. It’s very possible that he was a
Washington D.C. area player whom Anson agreed to try out while the Colts were
in town.
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