Oeschger is best known for holding the Major League Baseball (MLB) record for the most innings pitched in a single game.

In 1920, both Oeschger and Leon Cadore pitched 26 innings for their respective teams in a game that was eventually called a tie due to darkness.

[1][2] After his baseball career ended, Oeschger was a teacher for the San Francisco Board of Education for 27 years.

In 1900 his family moved to Ferndale, California, where Joe's father bought 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land and established a dairy ranch.

After high school, Joe attended and played baseball at Saint Mary's College of California, graduating in 1914, seven years after fellow major leaguer Harry Hooper.

The game was held scoreless until the top of the fifth inning, when Ernie Krueger scored on an Ivy Olson single.

[5] On November 11, 1923, Oeschger and Billy Southworth were traded from Boston to the New York Giants for Dave Bancroft and Casey Stengel.

[12] He was invited to throw out the first pitch of game three of the 1983 World Series that pitted the Philadelphia Phillies against the Baltimore Orioles.