Birthday team's pretty good - two HOFers and a bunch of solid MLB regulars*. Just make sure you declare the clubhouse a Carbolic Acid Free Zone.

C: Johnny Peacock
1B: Willie McCovey
2B: Del Pratt
3B: Adam Kennedy
SS: George Strickland
LF: Bob Brower
CF: Harry Wright
RF: Chick Stahl

SP: Jim O'Toole
SP: Richard Dotson
SP: Chuck Dobson
SP: Cliff Chambers
SP: George Pierce
RP: Ted Bowsfield

Not that one: John Houseman
Not running for president: Matt Roney
On the Indians bench of my youth: Dan Rohn and Pat Keedy
Tidewater Tides middle infield: Kevin Baez and Kelvin Torve

* - not much in left field, though. Choosing between Jim Lindeman and Bob Brower is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Also 100 years ago today, from the Pittsburgh Gazette Times:

Tommy Corcoran, formerly star shortstop of the New York, Cincinnati, and Brooklyn National League nines, was arrested here today charged with knocking out four teeth of Melvin Hepburn, a neighbor, with whom he quarreled in front of the bar at a Meadow street hotel.

M.C.A. was with it and he's my ace
So I grabbed the piano player and I punched him in the face
The piano player's out the music stopped
His boy had beef and he got dropped

cavort around the third cushion

I usually get slapped in the face when I try that.

The "peerless" Mr. Lord 1909-1911: 118 OPS+, -8 Rcavort, age 30 entering 1912
Larry Gardner, Bos 3B 1909-1911: 118 OPS+, + 9 Rcavort, age 26 entering 1912

Gardner went on to be a starting 3B through 1922 and put up an extremely nice 43 WAR, 36 after 1911. Lord was out of the game after 1915 and had just 16 WAR for his career, 4 after 1911.

Forget Lord for Speaker, Lord for Gardner would have been one of the worse trades in history. I've never heard of Gardner before but over 1600 games at 3B and 6 more WAR than Traynor.

Apropos of well and truly nothing, the guy sitting across from me on the subway this morning--reading The Girl Who Played With Fire, if that matters--was an absolutel dead ringer for Terry Francona.

Holy moly. I just saw a headline on the AP wire that was something like 'Orioles Sign LHP Chen To 3-Year Contract'.

I almost fainted from the sheer insanity of such a move, then I realized it wasn't Bruce. Carry on.

Yea, Bruce Chen only signed a two year deal!

We should note that Harry Wright is in the Hall of Famer as an executive - he wasn't much of a player.

I usually get slapped in the face when I try that.

As you should be! I know it's easy to get excited when you're around a cushion but you can't just be jumping up and down running around each one you see. A gentleman doesn't cavort.

Did the cushion give consent? Explicitly?

We should note that Harry Wright is in the Hall of Famer as an executive - he wasn't much of a player.

In fairness, he was a league-average CF bat at age 36. I suspect his career numbers would look much better if they weren't 100% decline phase.

I know it's easy to get excited when you're around a cushion but you can't just be jumping up and down running around each one you see.

I don't! Only every third cushion.

Did the cushion give consent? Explicitly?

Take it to the Petco thread.