Guy Terrell Bush (August 23, 1901 – July 2, 1985) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, nicknamed "the Mississippi Mudcat".

The 6-foot-tall (1.83 m) pitcher played for the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Bees, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds in his 17-year professional baseball career.

[2] After attending the now defunct Tupelo Military Institute in Mississippi,[3] Bush made his major league debut for the team that year on September 17, 1923.

[1] After finishing the 1926 campaign fourth in the league with a 2.86 earned run average in a primarily relief setting,[4] Bush started more games than he relieved the following season.

[4] Even more impressive, Bush had a streak of eleven straight wins until it was broken by a relief loss on August 12 against the Braves.

[7] Despite the Cubs' loss of the Series in five games, Bush pitched a total of eleven innings with 4 strikeouts and gave up just one run.

When he really bears down on the ball, he actually springs forward and finishes up in a squat position like a catcher reaching for a low pitch.

(A fiery bench-jockey, Bush helped lead Chicago's mean-spirited heckling of Babe Ruth; "The Bambino" was unfazed, as evidenced by his legendary "called shot" home run in Game 3.)

As the starting pitcher for the Cubs in Game 1, Bush gave up eight runs on three hits, and walked five in just five innings of work, en route to a 12–6 Yankees win.

He tied with Dizzy Dean and Ben Cantwell for the second most wins in the National League while also ranking among the NL's top ten with four shutouts (4th), 20 complete games (8th), and a 2.75 ERA (9th).

On November 22, 1934, just a little over a month after the season, Bush was traded along with outfielder Babe Herman and Jim Weaver to the Pittsburgh Pirates for left-handed pitcher Larry French and future Hall of Famer Freddie Lindstrom, also then playing outfield after spending most of his career at third base.

[1] Bush left the Cubs after twelve years with the team and finished as one of the club's winningest pitchers with a record of 152–101.

Bush later described the Babe's final blast: "He [Ruth] got ahead of the ball and hit it over the triple deck, clear out of the ballpark.

Despite pitching with below a 3.60 ERA in both 1936 and 1937, the St. Louis Cardinals bought Bush from the Bees months prior to the start of the 1938 season.

[1] Since many teams were affected by players leaving to fight in World War II, ex-players like Bush, Babe Herman and Hod Lisenbee were signed as replacements.

[4] Bush also managed the Battle Creek Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in parts of two seasons spanning 1951–52.

[10] Guy Bush died at age 83 on July 2, 1985, of cardiac arrest after working in his garden in Shannon, Mississippi.