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{{Short description|American baseball player and coach (1905–1986)}}
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{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Red Ruffing
|image=Ruffing, Boston, 1924 LOC npcc.11179 (cropped).jpg
|image_size=250px
|caption=Ruffing in 1924
|position=[[Pitcher]]
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{Birth date|1905|5|3}}
|birth_place=[[Granville, Illinois]], U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1986|2|17|1905|5|3}}
|death_place=[[Mayfield Heights, Ohio]], U.S.
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=May 31
|debutyear=1924
|debutteam=Boston Red Sox
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=September 15
|finalyear=1947
|finalteam=Chicago White Sox
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[Win–loss record (pitching)|Win–loss record]]
|stat1value=273–225
|stat2label=[[Earned run average]]
|stat2value=3.80
|stat3label=[[Strikeout]]s
|stat3value=1,987
|teams=
* [[Boston Red Sox]] ({{mlby|1924}}–{{mlby|1930}})
* [[New York Yankees]] ({{mlby|1930}}–{{mlby|1942}}, {{mlby|1945}}–{{mlby|1946}})
* [[Chicago White Sox]] ({{mlby|1947}})
|highlights=
* 6× [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] ([[1934 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1934]], [[1938 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1938]]–[[1942 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1942]])
* 6× [[World Series champion]] ({{wsy|1932}}, {{wsy|1936}}–{{wsy|1939}}, {{wsy|1941}})
* [[List of Major League Baseball annual wins leaders|AL wins leader]] (1938)
* [[List of Major League Baseball annual strikeout leaders|AL strikeout leader]] (1932)
* [[Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame]]
* [[Monument Park (Yankee Stadium)|Monument Park]] honoree
|hoflink = National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
|hoftype = National
|hofdate=[[1967 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting|1967]]
|hofvote=86.9% (15th ballot)
}}
'''Charles Herbert''' "'''Red'''" '''Ruffing''' (May 3, 1905&nbsp;– February 17, 1986) was an American professional [[baseball]] player. A [[pitcher]], he played in [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB) from 1924 through 1947. He played for the [[Boston Red Sox]], [[New York Yankees]], and [[Chicago White Sox]]. Ruffing is most remembered for his time with the highly successful Yankees teams of the 1930s and 1940s.

Ruffing dropped out of school as a child to work in a [[coal mine]] in his native [[Illinois]]. He played for the mine's company baseball team as an [[outfielder]] and [[first baseman]]. After he lost four toes from his left foot in a mining accident, he became unable to run in the field, and switched to pitching. He played in [[minor league baseball]] in 1923 and 1924 before making his MLB debut with the Red Sox. After struggling with Boston, pitching to a 39–96 [[win–loss record (pitching)|win–loss record]], the Red Sox traded Ruffing to the Yankees, where he became successful, pitching as the Yankees' [[ace (baseball)|ace]] through 1946. After one season with the White Sox, Ruffing retired from pitching to work in [[coach (baseball)|coaching]]. He served as a bullpen coach for the White Sox, a pitching coach for the [[New York Mets]].

Ruffing was a member of six [[World Series]] championship teams with the Yankees. He also appeared in six [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|MLB All-Star Games]]. He was inducted into the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] in [[1967 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting|1967]]. The Yankees dedicated a plaque to Ruffing in [[Monument Park (Yankee Stadium)|Monument Park]] in 2004.