| Emil Yde | |
| Position: | Pitcher |
| Bats: | Both |
| Throws: | Left |
| Birth Date: | January 28, 1900 |
| Birth Place: | Great Lakes, Illinois, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Leesburg, Florida, U.S. |
| Debutleague: | MLB |
| Debutdate: | April 21 |
| Debutyear: | 1924 |
| Debutteam: | Pittsburgh Pirates |
| Finalleague: | MLB |
| Finaldate: | October 3 |
| Finalyear: | 1929 |
| Finalteam: | Detroit Tigers |
| Statleague: | MLB |
| Stat1label: | Win–loss record |
| Stat1value: | 49–25 |
| Stat2label: | Earned run average |
| Stat2value: | 4.02 |
| Stat3label: | Strikeouts |
| Stat3value: | 160 |
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Emil Ogden Yde (January 28, 1900 – December 4, 1968) was an American left-handed professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of four seasons in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1924–27) and Detroit Tigers in 1929. As a rookie in 1924, Yde led the National League in shutouts with four and in winning percentage (.842) with a Win–loss record of 16–3.
In, Yde became the first pitcher ever to allow back-to-back home runs in a World Series when Goose Goslin and Joe Harris hit consecutive homers in the third inning of the fourth game of the series.[1]
He also was a good hitting pitcher in his brief major league career, posting a .233 batting average (74-for-317) with 46 runs, 1 home run and 28 RBI.
Yde was of Danish descent.[2] His father worked at Naval Station Great Lakes and later as a superintendent at a coal yard. Yde attended both the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[3] He served in the United States Navy during World War I.[4]
He moved to Leesburg, Florida during his playing career and eventually became a real estate dealer there. In 1944, he ran for sheriff of Lake County, Florida but lost in the Democratic Party primary to Willis V. McCall.[5]