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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Primer Dugout (and link of the day) 5-23-2013

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posted 21 hours ago by Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) to dugout, ed walsh, history | 12 comment(s)

Milwaukee Journal, May 23, 1913:

Big Ed Walsh, twirling star of the White Sox, announced today that he has joined the faculty of a correspondence school and hereafter must be addressed as “Professor”. For a paper dollar Walsh will send out to aspirants for fame six lessons on the science of moistening the ball and putting it where the batter’s bat isn’t. Walsh starts his classes Monday.

This is not something that strikes me as a useful service. Nonetheless, I’d love to be able to read Walsh’s ...

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1. Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) posted on November 01, 2012 at 06:26 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Great speed in the outfield and a couple very good left-handed starters on today's Birthday Team.

C: Kid Baldwin
1B: Vic Power
2B/Manager: Bid McPhee
3B: Eddie Williams
SS: Johnny Burnett
LF: Gary Redus
CF: Coco Crisp
RF: Pat Mullin

SP: Fernando Valenzuela
SP: Larry French
SP: Russ Kemmerer
SP: Bob Wells
SP: Tom Fisher
RP: Anthony Bass

Pinch Runner: Miguel Dilone

2. Dag Nabbit has the talking pillow posted on November 01, 2012 at 08:05 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Today is also the 50th anniversary of a first-ballot Hall of Famer signing his first professional contract. Can you figure out who it is before clicking on the link?

3. Jose Can Still Seabiscuit posted on November 01, 2012 at 08:34 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Also, at some point today it will be 1,000,000,000 seconds since the Pirates sign free agent pitcher Luis Tiant.

OK, this is a bit scary. Not the fact itself, but that you know it.

4. Dag Nabbit has the talking pillow posted on November 01, 2012 at 08:40 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Eh, it's 11,574 days. If you can figure out 10,000 days, you can figure out 11,574 days. Same principle.

5. charityslave is thinking about baseball posted on November 01, 2012 at 09:13 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Wow! I guessed the HoF'er correctly. Blind hog meets nut.

6. JJ1986 posted on November 01, 2012 at 09:29 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

I guessed Willie Stargell; right year, but not the answer.

7. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines posted on November 01, 2012 at 10:18 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

As always, SLAM.canoe.ca is the best place to go for all the baseball transactions.

We have the first waiver transaction of the winter, as Scott Maine has been claimed by the Blue Jays from the Indians.

Amazing how many Yankees are now free agents. I guess that happens when the entire team is over 35 years old.

Soriano just declined his option.

Other free agents are Swisher, Kuroda, Chavez, Pettitte, Martin, Lowe, Andruw, Fred-Gar, Ibanez, Ichiro, and of course Mariano Rivera.

8. Walt Davis posted on November 01, 2012 at 04:16 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I went with Fergie Jenkins which is also the right year but not the right answer. 1962 apparently was a good year to be signing ballplayers.

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