High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eppa Rixey Jr. (May 3, 1891 - February 28, 1963), nicknamed "Jephtha", was an American left-handed pitcher who played 21 seasons for the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds in Major League Baseball from 1912 to 1933. Rixey was best known as the National League`s leader in career victories for a left-hander with 266 wins until Warren Spahn surpassed his total in 1959.