His career was chopped up due to time spent fighting in World War I, as part of the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
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After baseball, Klepfer became an independent oil operator and then in 1946 went to work for C.W. Titus, an oilman in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
:* Edward Lloyd Klepfer, commonly known as "Big Ed", is a Major League Baseball spitball pitcher who played for the New York